bug#40220: date command set linux epoch time failed

2020-03-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/27/20 11:52 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I tested this in a victim system and if I was very quick I was able to log in and set the time to :10 seconds but no earlier. Sounds like some sort of atomic-time thing, since UTC and TAI differed by 10 seconds when they started up in 1972. Perhaps the

bug#40220: date command set linux epoch time failed

2020-03-28 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 40220 + notabug close 40220 thanks shy wrote: > I use command date -s "1970-01-20 00:00:00" to set date, but it > failed. there is error message "date: can't set date: Invalid > argument". > It's UTC time and no timezone. This is most likely a limitation of your kernel. I can