[lug] Why can't I set my date

Quentin Hartman qhartman at gmail.com
Thu May 14 16:54:10 MDT 2015


Maybe there is something running that is resetting the date to the hardware
clock? You can set the hardware clock explicitly with the "hwclock" command.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Steve Sullivan <steve.sullivan at mathcom.com>
wrote:

> Not sure if Bear was in jest or not, but he may have a point.
> You wrote
>   sudo date -s '+next month'
>
> But maybe you meant without the "+":
>   sudo date -s 'next month'
>
> Is date "+..." trying to increment by 2015 years?
> Not quite the end of the world, but still :)
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:34:50PM -0600, Bear Giles wrote:
> >    You're trying to set it to a date after the end of the world.
> >    On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Michael Hirsch <[1]
> mdhirsch at gmail.com>
> >    wrote:
> >
> >      On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Simos <[2]blug at chinesetearoom.com>
> >      wrote:
> >      > Michael,
> >      >
> >      > Is this a virtual machine by any chance?
> >
> >      No, this is my Dell tower under my desk.
> >      Michael
> >      >
> >      >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Stephen Queen <[3]
> 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
> >      <[4]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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