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Hi,
I'm a super newbie of arch linux.
I installed a new arch linux on my laptop follow the beginner guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide
and I configured the timezone part, here is what I did:
ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Sep 12 03:55 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
But my system time is set to Europe London, and I can't change it.
Please help!
Thanks,
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are you using a pure systemd setup or a mix of sysvinit & systemd ?
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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Thanks for reply!
I'm sorry, I don't understand what do you mean by " are you using a pure systemd setup or a mix of sysvinit & systemd ? "
How can I check this?
Thanks!
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I run this command:
hwclock --systohc --utc
during the installation, is this the reason?
Thanks
BTW, I installed two system on my laptop, arch linux and win 7
Last edited by williamh (2012-09-13 21:53:54)
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What he means is, are you using "init=/bin/systemd" on one of the lines in the bootloader's configuration file?
That would be a "pure" systemd setup (well, pure would probably be getting rid of rc.conf too).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Timezone
If you are using systemd's timedated, you might wish to also edit the file /etc/timezone and write your <Zone>/<Subzone>.
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if you want to use a dual boot, make sure you put in the fix for Windows to use UTC as well. If not I'd advise using localtime
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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What he means is, are you using "init=/bin/systemd" on one of the lines in the bootloader's configuration file?
That would be a "pure" systemd setup (well, pure would probably be getting rid of rc.conf too).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Timezone
If you are using systemd's timedated, you might wish to also edit the file /etc/timezone and write your <Zone>/<Subzone>.
I searched in my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file, and didn't find a line like :
init=/bin/systemd
So, I guess I'm not using systemd ?
And I also edit my /etc/timezone file , added one line :
America/Los_Angeles
Last edited by williamh (2012-09-13 22:17:06)
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if you want to use a dual boot, make sure you put in the fix for Windows to use UTC as well. If not I'd advise using localtime
Yes I changed the windows 7 registry to make it use UTC.
But my system time is still Europe London.
My /etc/localtime is link to America Los_Angeles:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Sep 12 03:55 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
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my date command output:
[william@myarch ~]$ date
Thu Sep 13 09:02:55 PDT 2012
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my hardware clock and software clock are the same, is this correct?
[william@myarch etc]$ hwclock
Thu 13 Sep 2012 09:21:07 AM PDT -0.407032 seconds
[william@myarch etc]$ date
Thu Sep 13 09:21:11 PDT 2012
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they are supposed to be the same
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I fixed the problem:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … col_daemon
Thank you all!
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