On 2015-06-17, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote: >> For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: >> >> sudo date 020115002014 > > That worked - it took effect after a reboot. > That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot.