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Gossamer

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 31

I discovered I was using my Archlinux system in the future... problem

I noticed my clock was saying sunday... rather than saturday.
Sure enough I restarted my PC and set my bios back to Saturday but when I logged back into Arch... openbox crawled to a stop, no mouse support and tint2 isn't showing any of my desktops anymore.

So my guess is that there are packages that break if the time is skewed?
...so any solution for this? In theory, I suppose I could just wait until tomorrow around midnight and log back in... I suppose in theory everything would be fine but is there an actual fix for it?

singenbale

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Registered: 2010-10-01

Posts: 33

Re: I discovered I was using my Archlinux system in the future... problem

When i installed archlinux first time it sayed something like "time set in the future" during the startup process. Correcting the bios clock solved the issue for me. However at that time only the base system was installed.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: I discovered I was using my Archlinux system in the future... problem

Maybe this would help

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time#Time_Skew

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