Lxd: date: cannot set date

[sforteva]

Required information

• Distribution:Ubuntu
• Distribution version:16.04.2 LTS
• The output of "lxc info" or if that fails:
  _lxc info
  config:
  core.https_address: '[::]:8443'
  apiextensions:
• id_map
  apistatus: stable
  apiversion: "1.0"
  auth: trusted
  public: false
  environment:
  addresses:
  
  
  
  • 192.168.191.60:8443
  
  
  • 10.1.0.1:8443
    
    architectures:
  
  
  • x86_64
  
  
  • i686
    
    certificate: |
    
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    driver: lxc
    
    driverversion: 2.0.7
    
    kernel: Linux
    
    kernelarchitecture: x86_64
    
    kernelversion: 4.4.0-77-generic
    
    server: lxd
    
    serverpid: 2592
    
    serverversion: 2.0.9
    
    storage: dir
    
    storageversion: ""_
  
  

Issue description

date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted Fri Aug 18 09:59:19 UTC 2017

I tried
lxc config set rstudio environment.LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
and after
sudo lxc exec rstudio -- /bin/bash
in container
date 081809592017.19
I installed ntpdate, but
ntpdate 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org , ...
no server suitable for synchronization found
so, i tried to config _nano /etc/ntp.conf_, but it not exists.

Pleas, help me.

[chuegel]

This isn´t actually a lxd issue.

Install ntp with:

apt install ntp

then

ntpq -p

[sforteva]

It didn't solve the problem.

[stgraber]

System time is shared between containers and host since it's the same kernel. It's therefore not allowed for a container to alter system time as that would affect the entire host.

You can obviously change timezone as that's a userspace concept, but changing time is something you need to do on the host.