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Change the bios time of a Virtualbox image of `<name>` to be +/- `<msecs>` from current time.
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vbox-change-time.sh
# Disable time synchronization
VBoxManage setextradata <name> "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1
# Change time
VBoxManage modifyvm <name> --biossystemtimeoffset <msecs>
# Change time via OS (Ubuntu) to 03/09/2014 at 01:00:00
sudo date 030901002014.00
# update timezone data
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tzdata
# change timezone
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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