In a round about way, fixed the setting the date issue (I hope)
[doneit] / support /
drwxr-xr-x   ..
-rwxr-xr-x 2018 builddeb.py
-rw-r--r-- 108 doneit.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 8981 pylint.rc
-rwxr-xr-x 1112 test_syntax.py
-rwxr-xr-x 2639 todo.py