Yesterday, 2021-03-02, i ran into a problem where one ESXi server didn’t sync it’s time with the NTP server configured. It was lagging approximately 2h, 22min & 15sec. Current UTC was 07:51:55 when it should have been 10:13
The well known command esxcli is your friend if doing this via command line via SSH. trying “esxcli system time set” will give you:
- You must specify one of year, month, day, hour, minute or second
- If you need the exact options you can just give “esxcli system time set –”
- Cmd options:
-d|–day=<long> Day
-H|–hour=<long> Hour
-m|–min=<long> Minute
-M|–month=<long> Month
-s|–sec=<long> Second
-y|–year=<long> Year
- Cmd options:
Gives you a pretty good idea how to set date and time and in the below example i provide all the options.
esxcli system time set –day=2 –month=3 –year=2021 –hour=10 –min=15 –sec=0
Now all good 🙂
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