Cannot run adb shell “date `date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`”

Question

I have a warning when running React Native on an Android device:

Debugger and device times had drifted by more than 60s. Please correct this by running adb shell "date `date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`" on your debugger machine

But when I run the command as suggested above, I get and operation not permitted error:

date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted

I already tried with sudo, still got same result:

sudo adb shell "date `date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`"

Answer 1

Deselecting automatic time and time zone did not work for me. Instead, I did adb shell su root date $(date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S).

Adding "su root" is the solution to the "Operation not permitted" error.

Note that this is not equivalent to executing adb shell first and then su root date $(date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S) (in this case $(date +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S) returns the emulator time, which is not correct, so even though the command succeeds, it does not fix the problem).

Answer 2

I had this problem and solved it by enabling 'set time automatically' in windows 10 Time and Language settings. also I enabled automatic date & time in my android phone.

Answer 3

I had this problem in real android device, I had a time difference between the pc and the mobile higher than 60 second. I solve the issue just by putting them on same time

Answer 4

Inside the emulator goto Settings > Date & Time

1. Deselect Automatic timezone.
2. Adjust your timezone manually.
3. Deselect automatic date & time and set correct time