# Changing system date, time and timezone from dashboard?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-system-date-time-and-timezone-from-dashboard/19214>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [16 December 2019 07:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-system-date-time-and-timezone-from-dashboard/19214 "2019-12-16T07:21:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dr\_cave\_dweller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dr\_cave\_dweller](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dr_cave_dweller)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2019 07:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-system-date-time-and-timezone-from-dashboard/19214/1 "2019-12-16T07:21:17Z")

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I have searched here and can't find an answer.

Is it possible to control and overwrite/set system parameters such as date, time and time zone from the dashboard? Running Node-Red on a Raspberry Pi.

The implementation wont be connected in anyway to the internet so I can't easily pick up time and date from there. And its not practical to command line in to set these things.

I downloaded the moment node and it doesn't appear to have that functionality (maybe I missed how to use it??). I have tried playing around with the setMonth() setDate() but that doesn't appear to work.

Hoping someone here can point me in the correct direction of if this is even possible.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2019 08:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/changing-system-date-time-and-timezone-from-dashboard/19214/2 "2019-12-16T08:55:34Z")

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Hi - by system time I think you mean of the overall system (ie outside of Node-RED). For that you usually use the command line `date` - called from an exec node . But that will require having root privileges - so you will need to add access for your user to date. - eg see [https://askubuntu.com/questions/729805/how-can-i-set-system-time-as-regular-user-via-cmd-line](https://askubuntu.com/questions/729805/how-can-i-set-system-time-as-regular-user-via-cmd-line)