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How do i trick a game to think its 2020 on linux (feddit.rocks)
submitted 4 months ago by mariah@feddit.rocks to c/piracy@lemmy.ml
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A game i downloaded wont save unless the date is before may 2020. How do i do this on fedora

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[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Time namespaces may be the best bet if you also need to run other tools with the same time configuration alongside the game.

For quick one-offs, there's libfaketime with the faketime command. I'm not 100% sure that this will work with things like Wine but it should be relatively easy to test.