Re: [Help-bash] set time

[readmax]

On Friday, September 14, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:
> But *why* do you want to set the system clock ahead 2.5 hours?  It's
> such a bizarre request that you must be doing it to solve some other
> problem, which can perhaps

I often have wild drifts in my virtual machines, the sort that ntp can't
 deal with and internet access is quite often not available (thus, no 
ntpdate either).

So I use a script that shifts the time by one second or more every few 
or several seconds (depending on the situation) based on my algorithm 
(which would become too mathematically complicated to me, at least for 
the time I afford to give it, if some of its steps themselves take an 
unpredictable *and* non-negligible number of milliseconds to run). I use
 date -s "$intv seconds" (as one your replies suggested) and, while it's
 far from perfect, it's making the situation much more manageable, as at
 least I'm running just one command.

Certainly, if you could help me find another approach to this, that would be great.