Program comparable to runasdate

I looked it up to see what it was and now I'm curious why one would need it.

 

Program comparable to runasdate

Hi,

I too am looking for a safe version for mac's.

I found a tutorial for PC's at:http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-hack-software-and-run-a-trial-program-forever-162448/

but when I go to the NirSoft page, I noticed, just below the Description paragraph, this was added to the screen I was viewing, which was not on the tutorial screen of the NirSoft web page.

Known "False Positive" Issues

AVG Antivirus reports that RunAsDate is infected with "Trojan horse Generic 10.THK".

I don't understand why that is there. Why would the web site owner of NirSoft post that?

Anyway, I think that is a real neat software. Allowing one to play games well past the trial period and for as many times as one would like.

So if anyone knows of a SAFE mac version, pls let us know.

Thank you

Also, I just found the below warning on this site: http://www.torrentreactor.net/find/runasdate-for-mac

Are you going to download runasdate for mac?
It can be dangerous and cause a copyright infringement notice, so you might be prosecuted (read our Lawsuits Cases section).
We would recommend you to use a special program TorrentPrivacy to avoid that. It allows you to be anonymous in bittorrent networks.


Gee......and how does one do that???? This sounds way to risky now. lolololol

 

I ran across a similar problem where I had to have a specific time to open an application. I solved this by using a few lines of bash.

Code:

tag1=$(date +%m)
tag2=$(date +%d)
tag3=$(date +%H)
tag4=$(date +%M)
tag=$tag1$tag2$tag3$tag4
sudo date 03050001
open "/Applications/Application.app"
sudo date $tag

Basically I take note of what time it is now (month, day, hour, minute) and then set the time to what I want it to be when the application opens it (here it is March 5th, 12:01 AM). The default format for the date in Macs is [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]], nested in order of how it's read, so other things can be adjusted if necessary (cc means century).

I have a slight problem though, as the second sudo command prompts me to re-enter my password, even though I did that for the first sudo, and it's all one session. But that delay is only a few seconds. Also, if you're connected to the internet, even that doesn't matter, as allowing the time to be set automatically by Apple reverts to the correct time in ~10 seconds. If you want some more delay for the program to load, you can always put in

Code:

sleep 60

before the last line to make Terminal wait a minute before reverting back. Then you can toy with the variables and add a minute to the stored date to get the right time back.