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joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

Cant seem to fix time after the daylight savings

I am dual booting ArchLinux and Windows.

In Windows I did what the wikipedia says to change the registry (and yes fastboot and all of that have been disabled). In Windows I set the time manually, and it is OK. But in Linux, no matter what I do, the time is always +1h.

The weird thing is that if I use

timedatectl set-time "2025-04-10 13:16:00"

it ignores it and nothing changes.

I use Gnome, and if I try to change the time through Gnome Settings, when I click on "Data & Time" it does nothing, and the settings window gets frozen (I cannot remove it or click anywhere).

Some logs:

[root@thinkpad juanma]# hwclock --show
2025-04-10 14:15:00.250538+01:00
[root@thinkpad juanma]# timedatectl | grep local
          RTC in local TZ: no
[root@thinkpad juanma]# timedatectl 
               Local time: Thu 2025-04-10 14:17:16 BST
           Universal time: Thu 2025-04-10 13:17:16 UTC
                 RTC time: Thu 2025-04-10 13:17:16
                Time zone: GB (BST, +0100)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: inactive
          RTC in local TZ: no

The time hwlock shows it is wrong since it should be one hour less.

The time in the BIOS is the correct one.

I don't really know what to do.

Last edited by joanmanel (2025-04-10 12:22:14)

dogknowsnx

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Re: Cant seem to fix time after the daylight savings

No idea what(else) windoze does that it shouldn't, but did you try:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … local_time ?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,725

Re: Cant seem to fix time after the daylight savings

The time in the BIOS is the correct one.

Correct meaning it shows the current UTC, not your local time?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,973

Re: Cant seem to fix time after the daylight savings

-r, --show; --get
Read the Hardware Clock and print its time to standard output in the ISO 8601 format.
The time shown is always in local time, even if you keep your Hardware Clock in UTC.

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joanmanel

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Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 250

Re: Cant seem to fix time after the daylight savings

No idea what(else) windoze does that it shouldn't, but did you try:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … local_time ?

This fixed it, thank you.