Obtain and setting the BMC date and time using ipmitool

There are times when viewing the ipmi logs via the following command, the date and time is incorrect.

# ipmitool sel elist last 20
 2b7 | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Critical Interrupt | Bus Correctable error | Asserted
 2b8 | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Critical Interrupt | Bus Correctable error | Asserted
 2b9 | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Critical Interrupt | Bus Correctable error | Asserted
 2ba | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Critical Interrupt | Bus Correctable error | Asserted
 2bb | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Critical Interrupt | Bus Correctable error | Asserted
 2bc | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Critical Interrupt | Bus Correctable error | Asserted
 2bd | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Power Supply PSU1_STATUS | Power Supply AC lost | Asserted
 2be | 07/26/2022 | 13:53:16 | Power Supply PSU1_STATUS |  | Deasserted
 2bf | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:23 | System ACPI Power State ACPI_PWR_STATE | Legacy ON state | Asserted
 2c0 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:23 | Processor CPU0_PRESENT | Presence detected | Asserted
 2c1 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:23 | Processor CPU1_PRESENT | Presence detected | Asserted
 2c2 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:58 | Power Supply PSU0_STATUS | Presence detected | Asserted
 2c3 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:58 | Power Supply PSU0_STATUS |  | Asserted
 2c4 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:58 | Power Supply PSU1_STATUS | Presence detected | Asserted
 2c5 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:58 | Power Supply PSU1_STATUS |  | Asserted
 2c6 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:59 | System ACPI Power State ACPI_PWR_STATE | Legacy ON state | Asserted
 2c7 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:59 | Processor CPU0_PRESENT | Presence detected | Asserted
 2c8 | 07/26/2022 | 22:19:59 | Processor CPU1_PRESENT | Presence detected | Asserted

To obtain current BMC time according to the BMC

# ipmitool sel time get
08/16/2022 00:25:06

Dynamically change the BMC time

# ipmitool sel time set "$(date '+%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S')"
08/15/2022 18:27:41

Verify the new settings:

# ipmitool sel time get
08/15/2022 18:28:04
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