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egad

Member

Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

question related to ABS and nettime

Hi,
I'm basicly a newbie-haven't used arch for a while and quite a bit's different. 
I think I am missing something. I am setting up a new system
The fine mods say the want to know what hardware people are using  (at least acording to their: How-to: Asking 'smart' questions.)
The hardware is compaq persario with a AMD 1ghz AMD processor, modest hard drive (200 gigs) modest ram (512 megs), 64 meg GeForce.

"what have you done so far?"
What I have done is
pacman -Syu
abs
pacman -Sy cvsup; pacman -Sy xorg and kde;pacman -Sy j2re and pacman nvidia-legacy
srcpac nvidia  (This installed 1.0.856-r1.)
started ntpd and ntpdate
mirrorselect -3 (then followed a wiki entery for arch about finetuning permission etc.

My question about setting the time is
When I got to setting the clock I don't know howto display my timezone correctly.
Is their something I am missing ? mabie a configure option?(quite likely)-
Reboot?
rc.conf has my timezone in the entery timezone=

My other question is about ABS-
Sometimes their seems to problems with what ever srcpac and friends need.

On the surface it looks  like something is getting mirrors that are in heavy use.
I did:
srcpac openoffice-base and srcpac nvidia
ERROR Mirror ___ can not be located, and make.conf missing!
What's odd is I did srcpac nvidia a second time that went fine.
Is their something I'm doing wrong and or a something that I need to configure?

ScriptDevil

Member

From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: question related to ABS and nettime

the timezones are there in  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TIMEZONE

You can set your date and time using
date mmddhhmmCCyy
Month,date,hour,minute,century(20),year(06)

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egad

Member

Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: question related to ABS and nettime

I spent some time yesterday afternoon hacking. I noticed something with hwclock-
it was reporting local time, that where I am isn't right anyway due to lohal polotics.
basicly to have my clock right it needs to be set to GMT in the BIOS-Gulp.
I did the same in /etc/rc.conf>>>
(TIMEZONE=Etc/GMT+8)
Interestingly enought this seems to have helped everything but kclock report time smoothly.    I'll hack at it a bit more figure that one out.