Correcting my clock in rc.conf?[SOLVED]

riwa · 2006-05-01 11:53:01

It's been wrong for quite a while but had bigger problems and didn't really bother. Now, finally, I got Arch running nice with most stuf working fine so I want to fix my clock. Iv'e tr ied setting it to "Europe/Stockholm" which made it two hours later when I want it like 8 hours earlier. I also saw there was an "GMT-0" option so I tried a GMT-8 without success. It only changed it 2 hours. I have "localtime" set. What can I do?

/Richard

firedance · 2006-05-01 13:04:16

I found this online: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html

try this (taken from the site)
# Run ``date MMDDhhmm'' to set the current system date/time.

# Type ``/sbin/hwclock --systohc [--utc]'' to set the hardware clock.

riwa · 2006-05-01 13:15:38

Thanks. Working perfectly!

T-Dawg · 2006-05-01 20:53:30

if you have localtime in rc.conf you'll want the hwclock line to be --localtime instead of --utc, otherwise when you reboot it'll be way off. But I would recommend using utc anyways unless you dual boot with windows.

byte · 2006-05-02 00:56:46

I use "localtime" even without dual-booting, because every LiveCD I know uses that 'hwclock --localtime' line.

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#1 2006-05-01 11:53:01

Correcting my clock in rc.conf?[SOLVED]

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Re: Correcting my clock in rc.conf?[SOLVED]

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Re: Correcting my clock in rc.conf?[SOLVED]

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Re: Correcting my clock in rc.conf?[SOLVED]

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Re: Correcting my clock in rc.conf?[SOLVED]

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