Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am in process of updating the
Solaris Machine's System Date and Time.... I am using the
following command.... Loginned as root........  # date -u
062800002010 Mon Jun 28 00:00:00 GMT 2010 # date Sun Feb 28
05:30:02 IST 2010  As seen above,, when i fire the "date"
command again.... the new updated date doesn't get
reflected......... Please let me know on what could be the
issue.......   share|improve this question What says "zdump -v
IST" ? –  jlliagre Jun 30 '10 at 0:02 Why aren't you using NTP?
If not the NTP daemon, you can set it once using ntpdate. I've
not had good luck with the date command either... –  Brian
Knoblauch Mar 17 '11 at 12:07 Are you in the global zone or
another zone? Only the global zone should be able to set the
system clock since it's shared by all zones. –  alanc Mar 18 '11
at 2:04  3 Answers 3  The hardware clock seems to be broken or
not responding to updates. This could be an OS bug or hardware
failure.  Add the following lines in /etc/system:  set tod_br