Set date/time using ADB shell

Question

I´m trying to set the date/time using the ADB shell but the shell only returns the current time.

I´ve tried:

adb shell date -s YYYYMMDD.HHmmss
         


        

Answer 1

Android 6.0 has a new date format:

Default SET format is "MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]", that's (2 digits each)
month, day, hour (0-23), and minute. Optionally century, year, and second.

And setting with -s no longer works. This is the updated set command:

Example of the updated command:

(while inside an adb shell)

date 060910002016.00                              

will result in:

Thu Jun  9 10:00:00 GMT 2016

Notice: The command will not be visible immediately on the device because it doesn't trigger any time change broadcast, But it will be visible within a minute.

To work around that, you can append this broadcast manually this way:

date 060910002016.00 ; am broadcast -a android.intent.action.TIME_SET

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To call this with an adb command:

adb shell 'date 060910002016.00 ; am broadcast -a android.intent.action.TIME_SET'