[lug] Why can't I set my date
Lee Woodworth
blug-mail at duboulder.com
Thu May 14 17:36:57 MDT 2015
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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