First, check to ensure your timezone offset is correct and there are 
no pending time clock changes.

:showclock

SYSTEM TIME: TUE, OCT 19, 2010,  5:46:38 PM
CURRENT TIME CORRECTION:            0 SECONDS
TIME ZONE:    4 HOURS  0 MINUTES WESTERN HEMISPHERE

If incorrext timezone and/or time correction is non-zero, you can fix 
both with the :SETCLOCK command.

Next, ensure that the TZ variable is appropriately set.

This can be done with a system logon udc that executes the following:

comment the following is for Eastern Time
SETVAR TZ "EST5EDT"
comment use the following for california
comment SETVAR TZ "PST8PDT"

At 05:18 PM 2010-10-19, Captain Greb wrote:
>Why is the date/time in the posix shell way off from the time on MPE and
>what can be done to fix it?
>
>started the system this morning:
>Initialize_genesis - Ver bld1: <<pci  2.1601>>
>TUE, OCT 19, 2010, 11:31:02 AM (y/n)?
>
>:showtime
>TUE, OCT 19, 2010,  1:30 PM
>
>$ date
>Thu Nov 11 12:57:36 UTC 2010
>
>over 3 weeks off?
>
>I tried setting the date as MANAGER.SYS:
>$ date 201010091335
>date: no permission to set date
>
>ugh.
>
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