# Install rdate with Homebrew, apt, dnf

Set the system's date from a remote host. Version 1.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install rdate.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:rdate
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install rdate
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install rdate
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: rdate from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install openrdate
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: openrdate from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:rdate
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Source summary:** Set the system's date from a remote host
- **Homepage:** <https://www.aelius.com/njh/rdate/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- rdate (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5

## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - rdate - 1:1.11-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: rdate from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | sets the system's date from a remote host with network time protocol | https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/openrdate
- Ubuntu apt - rdate - 1:1.11-3ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: rdate from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | sets the system's date from a remote host with network time protocol | https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/openrdate
- dnf - openrdate - 1.2-33.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: openrdate from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Good-old rdate date and time-setting software | http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrdate


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/rdate.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/rdate.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph