I was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J. LeVeque via Coursera.
I tried using the simple date
command but I kept on being told that
date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted
I tried updating the Ubuntu distro, but no luck. Eventually I found a solution using a symlink to localtime:
$ cd /etc
$ mv localtime localtime_original
$ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London ./localtime
You will have to use the correct zone for your location. Et voilà!
![Ubuntu-Desktop Ubuntu-Desktop](https://i0.wp.com/farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5175901226_ce072da448_n.jpg?resize=320%2C240)
In Ubuntu you pretty much have to sudo up to do any settings changes. So sudo date {params} will do.
I did think so too, but the good old trick did not work with that particular box… hence the post. Thanks for the comment anyway!
Comments are closed.