[SOLVED]System time

crisnoh · 2008-04-27 22:22:46

I have the timezone in my rc.conf set to "US/Eastern" but for some reason it's coming up as GMT on my desktop clock. Is there something else I'm supposed to set?

Last edited by crisnoh (2008-05-04 00:23:51)

skottish · 2008-04-27 22:27:01

You can try adding this to the end of the file /etc/profile. You may need to have tzdata installed if you don't already:

TZ='US/Eastern'; export TZ

Ambi · 2008-04-28 12:13:16

Are you using UTC or localtime in your rc.conf? If UTC, change it to localtime.

crisnoh · 2008-04-29 19:48:02

No good. Should I have tzdata set in the modules or daemons section of my rc.conf in order for it to work?

alkali1471 · 2008-04-29 21:08:02

i have same problem, im from georgia and when is set to asia/tbilisi it shows wrong time on desktop, but /canada/pacific works good, though but submitted songs on lastfm (e.g) and post on forums etc appear as in 10 hours. i will try to edit /etc/profile.. hope it helps

whaler · 2008-04-29 21:54:35

There's something fishy about the KDE time zone control module in Archlinux. I set my time zone to Oslo (Norway), yet the control module keeps insisting it should be "Longyearbyen [Arctic/S]". This does not happen in the other Linux distros I have, so I suspect I have a wrong setting in rc.conf and/or profile. I have tried various formats, but it does not change anything in KDE. It should not be necessary to install tzdata to fix this. Luckily I can set the local time separately...

crisnoh · 2008-05-04 00:25:58

Went into BIOS. The system clock was set to 4 hours past GMT. :?
Working fine now.

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