DATEFUDGE(1) | Debian | DATEFUDGE(1) |
datefudge - pretend the system time is different
datefudge [-s|--static] [-l|--add-ld-preload lib] at_date program [arguments ...]
datefudge is a small utility that pretends that the system time is different by pre-loading a small library which modifies the time(2), gettimeofday(2) and clock_gettime(2) system calls.
The at_date argument can be given in any format accepted by the date(1) program, for example "2007-04-01 12:21" or "yesterday", or "next Friday".
$ datefudge "2007-04-01 10:23" date -R Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:00 +0200 $ datefudge "1 May 2007" date -R Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0200 $ datefudge "2 weeks ago" date -R Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:32:12 +0100
$ datefudge "2007-04-01 10:23" sh -c "sleep 3; date -R" Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:03 +0200 $ datefudge --static "2007-04-01 10:23" sh -c "sleep 3; date -R" Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:00 +0200
$ datefudge --add-ld-preload /path/to/libclang_rt.asan-x86_64.so "2007-04-01 10:23" command If the command was compiled by 'clang -fsanitize=address -shared-libasan', then the above command might display some errors, for example: ==7625==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x614000000044 at pc .... Without the --add-ld-preload argument, this would not work at all.
Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>. Modified by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>.
There is no attempt to make this change undetectable by the program. In particular, file modification times are not modified.
On systems using 32-bit representation of time, datefudge is affected by the year 2038 problem, which might cause dates to be wrapped around, for instance:
$ TZ=UTC datefudge "2038-01-19 03:14:07" sh -c "sleep 1; date -R" Fri Dec 13 20:45:53 UTC 1901
Copyright © 2003 by Matthias Urlichs.
Copyright © 2008-2019 by Robert Luberda.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You may redistribute copies of datefudge under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
date(1), ld.so(1), time(2), gettimeofday(2), clock_gettime(2)
August 1th, 2019 | datefudge 1.24 |