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kshion619

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Registered: 2012-10-10

Posts: 3

Cannot Change Timezone/Time at All under GNOME Desktop

Just as the title says, im having trouble changing the timezone in gnome, when i go to date & time settings, it doesnt let you do anything and the unlock button in the top right corner fails to ask for a password, rather it doesnt do anything. If you need any info to complete this task, ill be more than happy to shed light where it needs to be shed

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Cannot Change Timezone/Time at All under GNOME Desktop

I have no idea about Gnome, but why do you need Gnome to change it anyway?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Timezone#Time_Zone

kshion619

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Registered: 2012-10-10

Posts: 3

Re: Cannot Change Timezone/Time at All under GNOME Desktop

Just set it to America/New_York and gnome put it in london, the system time is correct so its only gnome doing it.

fs4000

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 20

Re: Cannot Change Timezone/Time at All under GNOME Desktop

Try this:

echo America/New_York > /etc/timezone

Pres

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Registered: 2011-09-12

Posts: 423

Re: Cannot Change Timezone/Time at All under GNOME Desktop

Please search before posting. You need systemd:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=140862

kshion619

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Registered: 2012-10-10

Posts: 3

Re: Cannot Change Timezone/Time at All under GNOME Desktop

@Pres
That Thread Is for GRUB users and uses GRUB to fix it, i am using syslinux and i actually do have systemd, i needed it for other things like virtualbox