Is there a trick to set/change the date and time in Bangle emulators?

[mdoggydog]

I can't manage to change the time in either of the Bangle JS1/2 emulators. E.g., using Date & Time in Settings does nothing; neither does setTime() from the console.

I would very much like to set the time, in order to test/experiment code that depends on the date and time. Is there something I can do to get the emulator to stop tracking the browser/system time?

[gfwilliams]

I'm afraid there's nothing built-in. The emulator uses Date.now() (https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/master/targets/emscripten/jshardware.c#L136) so either you could change your PC's time settings, or in the browser's JS console you could override the browser's Date.now implementation:

Date._now = Date.now; Date.now = () => Date._now()+100000;

[mdoggydog]

Great - monkey-patching Date.now in the browser is the trick that does the trick for now!

Thanks for the pointer.