Hi there,
Is it possible to manually set the time inside an Ubuntu LXC container? I have a use case where it's necessary to temporarily override the date.
I know dpkg-reconfigure tzdata works however in this specific case I would like to set the date ahead of today.
I've tried timedatectl and the date command to no avail. The message I get for example is 'date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted'
I've also tried this on a privileged test container to see if that would make a difference, but it didn't.
I know the time is synced with the host but is this possible at all?
Thank you in advance!
Is it possible to manually set the time inside an Ubuntu LXC container? I have a use case where it's necessary to temporarily override the date.
I know dpkg-reconfigure tzdata works however in this specific case I would like to set the date ahead of today.
I've tried timedatectl and the date command to no avail. The message I get for example is 'date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted'
I've also tried this on a privileged test container to see if that would make a difference, but it didn't.
I know the time is synced with the host but is this possible at all?
Thank you in advance!
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