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How do i trick a game to think its 2020 on linux (feddit.rocks)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A game i downloaded wont save unless the date is before may 2020. How do i do this on fedora

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can put the game into its own time namespace.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/time_namespaces.7.html

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good bot

Are you really a bot?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for asking. Not sure how I toggled that on...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't have an answer for you (other than outright changing the system time, but I'm sure you're after a more elegant solution). I'm really curious about these circumstances though - why would the developers do that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, before 2000 would make sense. Before 2038 would make sense. But specifically May 2020? That feels like an intentional choice to me... but why?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right? That's a super arbitrary number that has to be intentional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

A licence that expires?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is the gta iv dodi repack. I didnt have this problem with fitgirls but it errors when installing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would have thought OP wanted an achievement in The Stanley Parable (5 years without playing), but they'd need to redo their math in that case...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This might actually make the most sense, or at least something along those lines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You can look up the man page for date. I'm not sure if that'll do, but it's pretty easy. Something like date --set="1 MAY 18:00:00" as root.