I am using this (yes, visually cr@ppy ;-)) code snippet to set back the time 5 hours. hwclock tells me it worked fine but the terminal windows opened before and after running hwclock still give me the "old" time setting?
_HRS_PM=-5 ### # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092631/get-current-time-in-seconds-since-the-epoch-on-linux-bash _DTS=$(date +%s) echo "// __ \$_DTS: |${_DTS}|"; _DTF=$(date --date @${_DTS}) echo "// __ \$_DTF: |${_DTF}|"; _NEW_DTS=$((_DTS+3600*_HRS_PM)) echo "// __ \$_NEW_DTS: |${_NEW_DTS}|"; # Convert the number of seconds back to date _NEW_DTF=$(date --date @${_NEW_DTS}) echo "// __ \$_NEW_DTF: |${_NEW_DTF}|"; which hwclock sudo hwclock --show sudo hwclock --debug --set --date "${_NEW_DTF}" sudo hwclock --show date // __ $_DTS: |1679606975| // __ $_DTF: |Thu 23 Mar 2023 09:29:35 PM UTC| // __ $_NEW_DTS: |1679588975| // __ $_NEW_DTF: |Thu 23 Mar 2023 04:29:35 PM UTC| hwclock from util-linux 2.36.1 Thu 23 Mar 2023 09:29:35 PM UTC $ sudo hwclock --show 2023-03-23 16:30:23.685781+00:00 $ date Thu 23 Mar 2023 09:31:40 PM UTC
