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How do i trick a game to think its 2020 on linux (feddit.rocks)

submitted 2 years 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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[–] Byter@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can put the game into its own time namespace.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/time_namespaces.7.html

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good bot

Are you really a bot?

[–] Byter@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for asking. Not sure how I toggled that on...

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have an answer for you (other than outright changing the system time, but I'm sure you're after a more elegant solution). I'm really curious about these circumstances though - why would the developers do that?

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, before 2000 would make sense. Before 2038 would make sense. But specifically May 2020? That feels like an intentional choice to me... but why?

[–] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 2 years ago

This is the gta iv dodi repack. I didnt have this problem with fitgirls but it errors when installing

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Right? That's a super arbitrary number that has to be intentional.