Set date/time using ADB shell

Question

I´m trying to set the date/time using the ADB shell but the shell only returns the current time.

I´ve tried:

adb shell date -s YYYYMMDD.HHmmss
         


        

Answer 1

To make this work on my Xperia S, I had to break the commands as follows:

> adb shell
# su -
# date /* see current date */
# date -s YYYYmmdd

Motive: my device had reverted to the beginning of Linux time, and I wasn't particularly worried with time, all I wanted was to set the correct date -- which, BTW I couldn't do through system settings because my custom MIUI ROM kept crashing...