idevicedate(1)

idevicedate1

Display the current date or set it on a device.

Usage

idevicedate [OPTIONS]

Overview

Simple utility to manage the clock on a device.

Options

-u, --udid UDID

target specific device by UDID.

-n, --network

connect to network device.

-d, --debug

enable communication debugging.

-s, --set TIMESTAMP

set UTC time described by TIMESTAMP

-c, --sync

set time of device to current system time

-h, --help

prints usage information

-v, --version

prints version information.

On the web

https://libimobiledevice.org

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11–Arch

--network since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --udid since Debian 8 (Jessie); --version since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -n since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

--uuid until Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Author

Martin Szulecki

From libimobiledevice 1.4.0-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.