Hey @menakas –
I was able to get the date to be set for a little bit, but it looks like there is an auto time syncronization job that is run about every 10 seconds:
You might be able to track down and kill that process. One other option would be to make use of the latest version of Local (v5) which doesn’t rely on Docker or Virtualbox:
From there you might be able to manually update the time of the host machine in order to do the testing that you want to do.