Date en esx console

To see the current ESX time:

# date

Thu May 1 14:57:55 BST 2008

To manually adjust the time:

#date -s  MMDDhhmmYY

for example to set the date and time to May 02, 2008 an 6:23 pm enter the following:
#date -s 0502182308
To check the current time for the hardware clock type:

#hwclock

Sync the hardware clock with the Service Console:

#hwclock –systohc