[lug] Why can't I set my date
Steve Sullivan
steve.sullivan at mathcom.com
Thu May 14 16:04:14 MDT 2015
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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