2) I booted in the Internet Recovery Mode option to install the version closest to the operating system that came with my Mac by holding down Shift+Option+Command+R while my MacBook was restarting. 3) I selected 'Reinstall Mac OS X' in the 'Mac OS X Utilities' window that appeared when Internet Recovery Mode fully booted up. 11 Fixing “No packages were eligible for install” in Sierra Installation Before installing open Terminal (Utilities Terminal) run the following command. It will fix No packages were eligible for install problem, this must be done before clicking Install.

The following information was found on someones site (sorry I forget which), but I have included it here to make it easier to correct this issue.

date {month}{day}{hour}{minute}{year}

For example, to set it to 8pm on the 2nd October 2018

date 100220002018

The command below will output the current date in a format suitable for use on another machine:
date '+%m%d%H%M%Y.%S'
Further, the following (mouthful of a command) will let you specify a date and time in a more readable format and set it in one go: