I know this is a fairly common question, but the answers I’ve seen before have not worked for me.
I’m simply trying to set the date. This was working a few months ago, and for some reason not anymore.
The command I’m using is :
sudo date -s “2021_03_09 10:36:41”
I’ve tried many variations, such as
sudo date +%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S -s “2021_03_09_10_36_41”
and I always get
date: invalid date ‘2021_03_09 10:36:41’
I’ve also tried adding a time zone. Why would this happen all of a sudden?
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Answer
Use dashes instead of the underscores.
sudo date -s '2021-03-09 10:36:41'