[lug] Why can't I set my date

[Stephen Queen]

That is the behavior when you don't have root permission. Are you sure sudo
is set up correctly?

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Try
> > sudo date -s '+next month'
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but:
>
> [606] ~>sudo date -s '+next month'
> [sudo] password for mhirsch:
> Sun Jun 14 13:19:35 MDT 2015
> [607] ~>date
> Thu May 14 13:19:36 MDT 2015
> [608] ~>
>
> --Michael
>
> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm testing some calendar sensitive stuff, so I'm trying set my Ubuntu
> >> desktop to be in the future.  Though I've set my clock hundreds of
> >> times in the past, it isn't working any more.
> >>
> >> I've tried the commandline:
> >> sudo date -s  "01 Sep 2015 12:53:00"
> >> sudo date -s 'next month'
> >> and a few dozen variations on this.  Date prints out the date I
> >> requestion, but the clock is actually unchanged:
> >>
> >> 595] $>sudo date -s 'next month'
> >> Sun Jun 14 12:58:35 MDT 2015
> >> [596] $>date
> >> Thu May 14 12:58:38 MDT 2015
> >> [597] $>
> >>
> >> I've also tried to use systemsettings (the KDE admin GUI) and it
> >> behaves similarly.  I set the date and press "Apply".  The gui seems
> >> to have a different date, but it refreshes in a few seconds with my
> >> original date and time.
> >>
> >> WTF?  This used to be easy.
> >>
> >> Oh, I was running ntpd but I turned it off.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cluelessly yours,
> >>
> >> Michael
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