Re: setting the date for testing

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From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: setting the date for testing
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 08:43:51PM +0000, Michael Grant wrote:
>I need to set the date to several years in the future in order to test
>something.  When I do this via the date command, the date returns back almost
>instantly (or within a few seconds).

Depending on what you're doing you may want to look at the faketime or 
datefudge packages.

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setting the date for testing Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2020-12-06 21:50 +0100
  Re: setting the date for testing "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2020-12-06 22:00 +0100
  Re: setting the date for testing "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2020-12-07 09:00 +0100
    RE: setting the date for testing Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2020-12-13 14:40 +0100
      Re: setting the date for testing "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2020-12-13 15:10 +0100
        Re: setting the date for testing Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2020-12-13 16:40 +0100
          Re: setting the date for testing "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2020-12-13 17:00 +0100
  Re: setting the date for testing Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-12-07 15:30 +0100

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