Can't change the date/time on my Steamdeck?

[TheAecy]

It looks like I lost the ability to change the date/time on my Steamdeck? What!? Why!?

This has to be a bug. There's no reason to lock away this functionality. It's basic. Multiplayer games won't work if you don't have it set to sync with servers online, and single player games are single player. Who cares if people futz with them?

What's more, some games require you to change the date/time. Beyond that, every single device I have, from my Switch to my work laptop to my (currently inoperable) tower PC to my phone lets you change the date/time. APPLE DEVICES let you change the date and time ffs.

And the little "help" link under settings leads to a page that says I need to be an admin, but I'm using the SteamOS user. I'm an admin by default, and I've done it in the past.

Please tell me this was unintended and that they intend to fix it, because I am tired and frustrated and haven't found a resolution. I really don't like having basic functionality on a device that hurts nobody yanked out from under me like a child told they're not allowed to play under a tree because someone somewhere had a branch fall on them once.

I paid for this hardware. If I wanted a device I can't properly administrate I'd get a friggin PS5.

Valve, please tell me you're not going to start yanking control of my own device away from me.

[WorthyIAm]

Hello mate, assuming your achievement hunting? No matter what, it's not actually steam, it's arch Linux that won't without a password, and this is a very easy fix

1. head to desktop
2. open terminal
3.set a sudo password by typing in "passwd" then enter your new password when prompted

After you do this you will be able to change the time and date settings on the desktop, this will carry over to the steam launcher, if you would prefer to do this all on terminal (because your there anyway) you can Type in "sudo date -s YYYY-MM-DD +HH:MM:SS" to change date from terminal. Also, if your not comfortable with using the terminal I'm sure there's a way to do it in the gui that you will be able to find with the new information

Hope this helps

[Propyl]

Originally posted by WorthyIAm:

Hello mate, assuming your achievement hunting? No matter what, it's not actually steam, it's arch Linux that won't without a password, and this is a very easy fix

1. head to desktop
2. open terminal
3.set a sudo password by typing in "passwd" then enter your new password when prompted

After you do this you will be able to change the time and date settings on the desktop, this will carry over to the steam launcher, if you would prefer to do this all on terminal (because your there anyway) you can Type in "sudo date -s YYYY-MM-DD +HH:MM:SS" to change date from terminal. Also, if your not comfortable with using the terminal I'm sure there's a way to do it in the gui that you will be able to find with the new information

Hope this helps

Hi, I tried this and it worked to change but the time isn't right, no matter how much I try, it automatically just sets to 12:00AM but the date is right. Just the time isn't. How to fix that?

[WorthyIAm]

Originally posted by Propyl:

Originally posted by WorthyIAm:

Hello mate, assuming your achievement hunting? No matter what, it's not actually steam, it's arch Linux that won't without a password, and this is a very easy fix

1. head to desktop
2. open terminal
3.set a sudo password by typing in "passwd" then enter your new password when prompted

After you do this you will be able to change the time and date settings on the desktop, this will carry over to the steam launcher, if you would prefer to do this all on terminal (because your there anyway) you can Type in "sudo date -s YYYY-MM-DD +HH:MM:SS" to change date from terminal. Also, if your not comfortable with using the terminal I'm sure there's a way to do it in the gui that you will be able to find with the new information

Hope this helps

Hi, I tried this and it worked to change but the time isn't right, no matter how much I try, it automatically just sets to 12:00AM but the date is right. Just the time isn't. How to fix that?

Hiya, seems like I'm now getting the same issue, a easy way to fix is to do the two commands separately I.e

Sudo date -s YYYY-MM-DD
Sudo date -s HH:MM:SS

The program knows the difference between different inputs due to the - and the : so make sure you use them correctly, and remember too fill in every character I have entered even when it's 0, formatting is annoyingly picky on the terminal