10-25-2023, 03:43 AM
SpriggsySpriggs I like your new avatar. 
Um... to try to say something on topic, but I must have already. Feel lucky to be on Windows. Because any Unix will make it a PITA to change the time to try to fool something. Especially you can't be using a Linux distro like Arch Linux because "pacman" is very particular about GPG keys which have expiration dates and stuff like that. Gentoo with its "OpenRC" startup system likes ringing like a crow, "Clock skew detected!" and might give the user a hard time about setting the system clock "correctly".
Now I put "correctly" in double-quotation marks like that because I do not have the system time set shown by Windows, Slackware and a couple of other operating systems. It is set to UTC which satisfies only Debian and whatever is based on it. The time is a few hours off but having to read the "later" time from some reports is sometimes annoying. :/
Um... to try to say something on topic, but I must have already. Feel lucky to be on Windows. Because any Unix will make it a PITA to change the time to try to fool something. Especially you can't be using a Linux distro like Arch Linux because "pacman" is very particular about GPG keys which have expiration dates and stuff like that. Gentoo with its "OpenRC" startup system likes ringing like a crow, "Clock skew detected!" and might give the user a hard time about setting the system clock "correctly".
Now I put "correctly" in double-quotation marks like that because I do not have the system time set shown by Windows, Slackware and a couple of other operating systems. It is set to UTC which satisfies only Debian and whatever is based on it. The time is a few hours off but having to read the "later" time from some reports is sometimes annoying. :/