move along, citizens
]]>Running XFCE Wheezy. I didn't need SU, nor bash -c. One must get their clock right with UTC. (My BIOS doesn't set the clock to UTC--the OS must. SU terminal--easy search online for good procedure.) Remove both double-quotes, of course--get the string correct.
]]>I just registered.... It gave me an error 2 times though. The string I pasted the first time was exactly the same as the one that eventually got accepted.
Just sayin'.
Just adding on to say that I had this same problem. Got the "incorrect answer" error message more than three times for the exact same string that eventually got accepted.
]]># date -u +%VLinux|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
]]>Just sayin'.
]]>What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?
so I'm marking this thread as solved, even though the bug report is still open.
]]>echo "00Linux" | sha256sum | sed 's/\W//g';
doesn't work (with "00" being the correct output of
date -u +%W
on the 3rd January) while
echo "01Linux" | sha256sum | sed 's/\W//g';
does work ("01" is incorrect for %W, but correct for %V, as already noted here).
However, for the suggestion of %H and %j, the problems with %H would be that you would have to have a bang-on system clock for it to work, and similarly for %j there would be problems with people registering at about midnight every day...
]]>Hi, I'm new to archlinux, but have been playing with it for a couple days. I too couldn't register until I changed my laptop's bios clock to UTC. This allowed arch to correctly apply my time zone change. I suspect that since arch thought my local time was UTC, and the challenge asks for UTC (date-u) that it used the wrong date.
ie. It's 11pm here but utc is 7am tomorrow. Since arch thought my bios clock was UTC, it applied my west coast -8hours to 11pm today, which screws up the argument.
So, I don't know that it is a bug so much as when you install arch on a former windows computer, people might be advised to set their bios to UTC.
Or make a simpler challenge question.... The challenge probably scares off many newbies wanting to learn about Arch.
The challenge has no notion of your computer's local settings. If your system has the wrong time, then date will produce the wrong output. Garbage in, garbage out. If you want bios to be local time, then you have to tell your OS that. In Arch use timedatectl.
Welcome to Arch.
]]>Or make a simpler challenge question....
If you want changes, it's best to suggest some well thought out alternatives instead of saying 'make it different'. Arch devs often use a 'patches welcome' approach.
The question used to be much different, but still some had problems registering: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 67#p569467
Then came the spammers: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104892
While the problems regarding the first week of the year will be addressed for correctness
ngoonee is talking about https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32649
]]>Or make a simpler challenge question.... The challenge probably scares off many newbies wanting to learn about Arch.
Welcome to the forums. As you participate, you'll find that 'newbies' isn't really Arch's target audience (arguably, Arch does not HAVE a target audience). While the problems regarding the first week of the year will be addressed for correctness, this is not at all to encourage more users to register here.
]]>ie. It's 11pm here but utc is 7am tomorrow. Since arch thought my bios clock was UTC, it applied my west coast -8hours to 11pm today, which screws up the argument.
So, I don't know that it is a bug so much as when you install arch on a former windows computer, people might be advised to set their bios to UTC.
Or make a simpler challenge question.... The challenge probably scares off many newbies wanting to learn about Arch.
]]>Your second example of the three you posted is what I'm getting. Are you sure that doesn't work?
Yes this is the one with the current week. I know.
But it doesn't work. If it works I wouldn't post here.
Have a look at the output without the sha and sed parts. It should give you a hint wether it is correct or not.
Sure? ... No help.
What do you think is the difference between the 3 strings I posted?
(Aktual, +1, -1)
Maybe some one else help a:
pacman -S ntp
ntpd -qg
But I would suggest to change the question.
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