[lug] Why can't I set my date
Bear Giles
bgiles at coyotesong.com
Thu May 14 17:59:13 MDT 2015
What happens if you give a specific date? I'm not familiar with the 'next
month' syntax and my copy of 'date' isn't happy with it. Maybe something is
aliased and you can get a date but not actually set one that way.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>
wrote:
> Oh and another daemon that modifies things DHCP. Is yours
> configured to do anything with the time?
>
> On 05/14/2015 05:36 PM, Lee Woodworth wrote:
> > Does systemd do anything with the system date & do you have it running?
> > Smells like some root daemon is resetting the time to me. Seems like
> > a gui tool would to need to ask for a password to get privileges.
> >
> > Do things change if you are just logged into the console as root
> > (ctrl-alt F1 on my systems)?
> >
> > How about if you kill dbus and/or udev?
> >
> > On 05/14/2015 04:54 PM, Quentin Hartman wrote:
> >> 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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> >>
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