Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-13 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-13 16:34, Michael Grant wrote: and now it appears to stick. So I'm good. Thanks for your help though! Michael Grant Glad to read you have solved it. Grx HdV

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-13 Thread Michael Grant
> Could it be that you have systemd-timesyncd running? > > BTW, this is what I do to manually/explicitly set the system time (taken > verbatim from my vimwiki, so don't mind the wording): > > Changing the Current Date: > > # timedatectl set-time > > Or both at once: > > # timedatectl set-time

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-13 Thread hdv@gmail
to:debian-user@lists.debian.org> *Subject: *Re: setting the date for testing On 2020-12-06 21:56, hdv@gmail wrote: > # timedatectl set-ntp true I am sorry for the typo. This should of course have been "false"! Grx HdV Could it be that you have systemd-timesyncd running?

RE: setting the date for testing

2020-12-13 Thread Michael Grant
, it just resets itself back to the current date/time after a few seconds. How can I stop this? Thanks! Michael Grant From: hdv@gmail Sent: 07 December 2020 07:53 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: setting the date for testing On 2020-12-06 21:56, hdv@gmail wrote: > # timedatectl

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 08:43:51PM +, Michael Grant wrote: I need to set the date to several years in the future in order to test something.  When I do this via the date command, the date returns back almost instantly (or within a few seconds). Depending on what you're doing you may want to

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-06 21:56, hdv@gmail wrote: > # timedatectl set-ntp true I am sorry for the typo. This should of course have been "false"! Grx HdV

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2020-12-06 21:43, Michael Grant wrote: I need to set the date to several years in the future in order to test something.  When I do this via the date command, the date returns back almost instantly (or within a few seconds). # timedatectl set-time 2025-12-06 20:41:41 # date Sat  6 Dec 20:

setting the date for testing

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Grant
I need to set the date to several years in the future in order to test something. When I do this via the date command, the date returns back almost instantly (or within a few seconds). # timedatectl set-time 2025-12-06 20:41:41 # date Sat 6 Dec 20:41:43 GMT 2025 # date Sat 6 Dec 20:41:44 GMT