Can I set the date for playwright browser

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When I write tests to run in playwright, I would like to be able to set the date that the browser believes it to be at the start of the test. Is there a way to achieve this using playwright?

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  2. You can use mocking tools like TimeShift.
    This piece of code would inject the timeshift library and then then the date to Feb 02 2012:

    const playwright = require("playwright");

(async () => {

    let removed = false;
    const browser = await playwright["chromium"].launch({headless: false});
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.setContent('<a href="#" onclick="document.querySelector(\'span\').innerText = new Date().toString()">Test me</a><span></span>');
    await page.click('a');
    console.log(await page.innerText('span'));
    await page.addScriptTag({ url: 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/timeshift-js@1.1.1/timeshift.js'});
    await page.evaluate(() => {
        Date = TimeShift.Date; 
        TimeShift.setTime(1328230923000); 
    });
    await page.click('a');
    console.log(await page.innerText('span'));
    browser.close();
})();

    Output:

    Fri Sep 18 2020 15:06:58 GMT-0300 (Argentina Standard Time)
Thu Feb 02 2012 22:02:03 GMT-0300
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