Change Date Terminal Mac El Capitan

This video will tell you how to set your computer's time & date using Terminal. Do you want OS X 10:11 El Capitan faster than you can use the OS X Terminal Commands 10 below. The commands disable various delays from that standard built by Apple. Open OS X Terminal, which you can find in the folder: Applications Utilities. Copy and paste the following command either in the Terminal window. OS X user interface.

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When it starts up in the El Capitan installer, can you not just quit the installer? The date to use an older copy is Oct 23 or earlier, but not sure how you will be able reset it. 1 Like moitori (Tori Hernandez) November 17, 2019, 6:15am #3. When I try to change the date using the aforementioned method in Terminal, I get the following message: date: bind: Permission denied date: settimeofday (timeval): Operation not permitted. I can’t for the life of me change the date. If so, that means I can’t download El Capitan properly. But when it comes to macOS software updates, the Mac App Store is really just a front end for a UNIX command, and fans of the Mac's Terminal can actually use this command to update their Mac.

When you’re booting your Mac from the recovery partition and are planning to reinstall OS X, you might be met by the following message:

An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running again

Now, if you haven’t used your Mac for a while, the error might be caused by an incorrect system date setting. You can check this by going to utilities and opening the terminal. Once in the terminal enter the following command and hit return/enter:

The result of this command will be the date that the system currently has been set to. For some reason, it might have been reset to 2001, in which case we need to set it to the right date. To do this, we enter a new command. This command will be entered as follows:

Every bracket should be replaced with a two-digit number based on UTC time. Below you see what the command should be for your current time and date – . To avoid trouble with timezones, we will use UTC time instead (). Which means, you can just enter it exactly like this:

Enter the command and hit return. You can then check if it was set correctly by running the first command again. If the date was wrong, it was likely that which caused the error, and after you quit the terminal it should be able to install OS X just fine.

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Date Format Key:

  • YYYY — The year (the first two digits/century can be omitted).
  • MM — The month of the year, from 1 to 12.
  • DD — The day of the month, from 1 to 31.
  • hh — The hour of the day, from 0 to 23.
  • mm — The minute of the hour, from 0 to 59.

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How to change the “date modified” attribute of a file in Mac OS High Sierra and newer?

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Unfortunately, new versions of Mac OS have different version of `touch` command, try these steps:

1. Open up the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) or if you prefer use iTerm.
2. Type this into Terminal (without hitting enter/return) replacing YYYYMMDDhhmm with the desired date information:

3. Open a Finder window and locate the file you wish to modify and drag and drop it into the Terminal window. Here’s an example of what should be typed into the Terminal at this point:

200801120000 in the example above represent “January 12, 2008 12:00 AM” or my 21st birthday. Make sure to change 200801120000 to the date you want and to replace /Volumes/Mac HD/Pictures/somefile.jpg with the proper path to the file you wish to alter the date for.

4. If all is in order press the return key.

How to change the “date modified” attribute recursively?

How to change creation date too?

Just remove m argument:

Alternatively, you can install xcode command line tools, and follow all steps:

Then you can use it’s command to change creation date, date syntax is MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS (where HH is hours in 24h format):

How to change the “date modified” attribute of a file in Mac OS El Capitan and older?

1. Open up the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) or if you prefer use iTerm.
2. Type this into Terminal (without hitting enter/return) replacing YYYYMMDDhhmm with the desired date information:

3. Open a Finder window and locate the file you wish to modify and drag and drop it into the Terminal window. Here’s an example of what should be typed into the Terminal at this point:

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200801120000 in the example above represent “January 12, 2008 12:00 AM” or my 21st birthday. Make sure to change 200801120000 to the date you want and to replace /Volumes/Mac HD/Pictures/somefile.jpg with the proper path to the file you wish to alter the date for.

4. If all is in order press the return key.

How to change the “date modified” attribute recursively?

How to change creation date too?

Terminal

Just remove m argument:

Change Date Terminal Mac El Capitan

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What’s about Linux?

Change Date Terminal Mac El Capitan

It’s the same but with additional space:

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and recursive one: