Changing dates on your docksal-powered VM to test date-dependent functionality.

docksal-date-change.sh

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# For docksal via VirtualBox:
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# Check the date in the VM
fin vm ssh date

# Check the date in the CLI container
fin exec date

# Check the time on your host
date

# These should match to start.

# Change the date in the VM
#   Accepts a number of time formats. You can set just the time or just the date if you like.
#   https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html#date
fin vm ssh sudo date --set 2020-04-01

# Print your host date and the CLI date to see that they're now different.
date && fin exec date

# Now any date logic in your application should behave as if it's the past or the future!

# Let's get back to normal. via https://stackoverflow.com/a/50730524/2566038
fin vm ssh sudo ntpd -q

# Alternately, just ReBoot!
fin vm restart && fin start

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# For docksal inside an Ubuntu VM. via https://askubuntu.com/a/331871
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# Open Windows Powershell or cmd
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage" setextradata "Your VM Name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1

# Restart the VM, then go into system settings, disable automatic date setting, and set the new date...
# Or open a terminal and set the date
sudo date --set 2020-04-01