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minigendo · 12-07-2019, 02:02 PM

Greetings,

My apologies for the trouble, but I wondered if anyone could guide me as to how to set the date / time on a Kindle 2 with 3G.

I've done some searching, but haven't turned anything up. There seems to be a search bar command to do it on later devices, but it doesn't appear to be an option on the 2.

To explain, I recently began having issues trying to sync, and later register my device. Investigating the matter, it seems that my Kindle's internal clock reset at some point. It now thinks it's 1970, which is causing it to reject it's own security certificate with a java.security.cert.CertificateNotYetValidException . Since I assume that the clock is normally set by a secure connection to an Amazon server, this represents something of a catch-22 (and a questionable design choice).

To ask then, is there a way of to set the date/time of a Kindle 2? Or will I need to root the device and ssh in to do so? And if I do need to do that, is there a special command or do I use some combination of date / hwclock to reset the time?

My thanks for any help anyone might provide.

12-07-2019, 02:02 PM	#1
minigendo Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 33914 Join Date: Dec 2019 Device: Kindle 2	Kindle 2 - How does one set the date / time? Greetings, My apologies for the trouble, but I wondered if anyone could guide me as to how to set the date / time on a Kindle 2 with 3G. I've done some searching, but haven't turned anything up. There seems to be a search bar command to do it on later devices, but it doesn't appear to be an option on the 2. To explain, I recently began having issues trying to sync, and later register my device. Investigating the matter, it seems that my Kindle's internal clock reset at some point. It now thinks it's 1970, which is causing it to reject it's own security certificate with a java.security.cert.CertificateNotYetValidException . Since I assume that the clock is normally set by a secure connection to an Amazon server, this represents something of a catch-22 (and a questionable design choice). To ask then, is there a way of to set the date/time of a Kindle 2? Or will I need to root the device and ssh in to do so? And if I do need to do that, is there a special command or do I use some combination of date / hwclock to reset the time? My thanks for any help anyone might provide.