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faketime — Fake the system time for a command. More information: <https://manned.org/faketime>.
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How to use the
faketime command: Fake the system time for a command. More information: <https://manned.org/faketime>.Solution
faketime — Fake the system time for a command. More information: <https://manned.org/faketime>.Fake the time to this evening, before printing the result of
date:faketime '{{today 23:30}}' {{date}}Open a new Bash shell, which uses yesterday as the current date:
faketime '{{yesterday}}' {{bash}}Simulate how a program would act next Friday night:
faketime '{{next Friday 1 am}}' {{path/to/program}}Code Snippets
Fake the time to this evening, before printing the result of `date`
faketime '{{today 23:30}}' {{date}}Open a new Bash shell, which uses yesterday as the current date
faketime '{{yesterday}}' {{bash}}Simulate how a program would act next Friday night
faketime '{{next Friday 1 am}}' {{path/to/program}}Context
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