[lug] Why can't I set my date
Lee Woodworth
blug-mail at duboulder.com
Thu May 14 17:38:47 MDT 2015
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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