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pilot

Member

Registered: 2011-02-23

Posts: 8

tint2 does not show the system time

Hello someone could help me with this boring issue?

this is my /etc/rc.conf
L
OCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

it its 21.10 eastern time and the clock shows 15:07

hwclock --show
Mon 28 Feb 2011 03:18:42 PM EST  -0.062839 seconds
date
Mon Feb 28 15:19:03 EST 2011

but the bios shows the right time so??.

Only Arch is on this laptop, no other OS.

GRUB installed on sda

Thanks

Last edited by pilot (2011-03-01 02:23:29)

thisoldman

Member

From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: tint2 does not show the system time

Check the changes in /etc/rc.conf.pacnew

thil77

Member

Registered: 2008-08-29

Posts: 52

Re: tint2 does not show the system time

you can also define your timezone in tint2 config file.
http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Configure#Clock

of course it's a work around but not a solution.