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altbdoor

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From: KL, Malaysia

Registered: 2012-04-25

Posts: 128

[SOLVED] hwclock and date time differs

hi people of archlinux

i have been using arch for quite some time, and i am satisfied with its performance on my eee 701sd.

lately, i've been checking on the clock in the xfce4-panel, and realized a difference with my house clock. i searched around the forums, but no avail. here's the output of both hwclock and date, and the rc.conf on my timezone.

> user - 12 May 18:59 - [~]
$ printf "%s\n%s\n" "$(sudo hwclock -r)" "$(date)"
Sat May 12 18:46:20 2012  -0.970314 seconds
Sat May 12 18:59:30 MYT 2012

# LOCALIZATION
# ------------
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Asia/Kuala_Lumpur"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
LOCALE=
DAEMON_LOCALE="yes"
USECOLOR="yes"

the correct time is in hwclock, but xfce4-panel clock shows the date clock. is there anyway to fix this?

EDIT: i apologize. clearly i have not been looking hard enough. following the necessary steps from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110510. will report on status later on.

Last edited by altbdoor (2012-05-12 16:36:40)

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: [SOLVED] hwclock and date time differs

Probably also worth checking out:

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altbdoor

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From: KL, Malaysia

Registered: 2012-04-25

Posts: 128

Re: [SOLVED] hwclock and date time differs

probably not the best solution, but i added the following line to my openbox autostart file

sudo hwclock --hctosys

this sets the hardware clock into the system clock every time i startx.