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rpag

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 3

Timezone setttings

Hi,

I am expriencing a very weird problem, my timezone was set to "Pacific/Canada" after a reboot(prompted by a crash of wormux), so I change my timezone back to "Europe/Dublin" and rebooted. Now the time appears as 07:34 ( approx. 7 hours off )... When I type 'date' it shows me being in the IST timezone, but I am in GMT..

My rc.conf settings are as follows :
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HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Dublin"

--- The output from 'date'
Wed Sep 17 07:37:07 IST 2008

(its really Tuesday, September the 16th, 00:43, at the time of this writing.

/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/Dublin & /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Dublin both exist.

Thanks

Last edited by rpag (2008-09-16 22:44:40)

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: Timezone setttings

Just an idea until someone who has a real clue can help you: try reinstalling "tzdata" which owns those files. Maybe they were somehow corrupted (I doubt it, but it won't hurt to try).
Otherwise, have you tried setting it to other timezones to see if the problem was a general one or specific to the "Europe/Dublin" timezone?

Last edited by Xyne (2008-09-17 00:24:59)

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Timezone setttings

On my system I have this at the end of /etc/profile. Between that and opennptd my clock is always correct:

TZ='US/Pacific'; export TZ

Skofo

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Registered: 2008-08-21

Posts: 36

Re: Timezone setttings

I changed my time via the BIOS.

rpag

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 3

Re: Timezone setttings

For anybody who has a similar problem I was able to resolve the issue by using ntpdate(pacman -S ntp).

ntpdate 1.ie.pool.ntp.org

You'll have to use a mirror for your own country.
This fixed my problem, resetting the time/date to what it should be.

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,052

Re: Timezone setttings

I changed my time via the BIOS.

I had the same problem, I used the same solution as Skofo. change your hardware clock time in your bios settings to GMT, should solve the problem.

Last edited by Cyrusm (2008-09-21 21:40:55)

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