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This wikiHow teaches you how to change the date and time on a Windows computer through the Command Prompt application. Without administrator access, you will not be able to change the date and time.
Steps
Turn off the date and time automatically
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Understand why this step is necessary. Although you can change the date and time on your computer using Command Prompt while the automatic date and time are active, the computer will eventually reset the date and time to match the current one.
- In some cases, the computer will reset the date and time on its own as soon as you close the Command Prompt.
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Open Start
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. Click the Windows logo in the lower left corner of the screen.
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Open Settings
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(Setting). Click the gear icon in the lower left corner of the Start window. The Settings window will appear.
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Click Time & Language . This option is located in the middle of the Settings window.
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Click Date & time . This tab is located at the top left of the window.
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Click the “Set time automatically” switch
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green. The switch will turn gray
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, so Windows will no longer automatically set the date and time. At this point, you can freely change the date and time of your computer in the Command Prompt.
Change date and time
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Open Start
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. Click the Windows logo in the upper left corner of the screen. The Start menu will pop up.
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Find Command Prompt. Type command prompt , then wait for Command Prompt to appear at the top of the Start menu.
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Right click
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Command Prompt at the top of the Start menu. A menu will drop down.
- If the mouse you use doesn’t have a right mouse button, click the right mouse button or click with two fingers.
- If your computer uses a trackpad instead of a mouse, press down on the trackpad with two fingers, or tap the bottom right of the trackpad.
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Click Run as administrator . This option is in the drop-down menu.
- You must be logged in as an administrator to change the date and time on your computer.
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Click Yes when prompted to confirm that you want to open Command Prompt. The Command Prompt window will appear at this time.
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Change time. The command to change the time in the Command Prompt is time HH:MM:SS AM/PM , where “HH:MM:SS” stands for hours, minutes and seconds, and “AM/PM” is the morning or evening hours. . To change the time on the computer, you need to enter the parameters in this command and then press ↵ Enter .
- For example, if you type time 08:35:00 AM and press ↵ Enter , the computer time will change to 8:35 AM.
- To change the time to 10:00 PM, type time 10:00:00 PM and press ↵ Enter .
- If you prefer to use 24-hour time, you can enter the desired time (for example, 14:00:00 instead of 2:00 PM), then enter the tag “AM” or “PM”.
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Change date. The date format you need to use in Command Prompt will depend on the country, but the Command Prompt will display the format: type date and press Enter , then type the date you want to use in the format given by Command Prompt specify (eg “dd-mm-yyyy” in Vietnamese) and press ↵ Enter .
- To change the date on your US computer to September 25, 2018, type date and then press ↵ Enter , then type 09-25-2018 and press ↵ Enter .
- If you want to adjust to October 12, 2018 on your computer in Vietnamese format, type date and press ↵ Enter , then enter 12-10-2018 .
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Review the date and time on your computer. In the lower right corner of the screen, you’ll see the updated date and time reflected in the current country format.
- If you use 24-hour time, the “AM” or “PM” tag will not show here.
Advice
- As long as the automatic date and time feature is turned off, the new date and time will not be changed after you restart your computer.
Warning
- If you change to a date in the past, some programs and security features on your computer may malfunction.
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