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2handband

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Registered: 2011-01-21

Posts: 58

Time incorrect

I have a fresh arch install as of today, running kde plasma next. The clock is wrong on the desktop; no matter what I set it to it's showing UTC time. the really interesting thing is that it's got UTC and local mixed up when at the system level:

[gene@genearch aur]$ timedatectl status
      Local time: Mon 2014-12-22 10:43:23 CST
  Universal time: Mon 2014-12-22 16:43:23 UTC

I tried re-running all the hwclock stuff that was done during the install; doesn't change a thing. Can anyone tell me what's up?

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Time incorrect

You cut off an essential piece of information there. What your RTC time? I'm guessing it's set to local time.

$ timedatectl status
      Local time: Mon 2014-12-22 17:45:49 EST
  Universal time: Mon 2014-12-22 22:45:49 UTC
        RTC time: Mon 2014-12-22 22:45:49
       Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
     NTP enabled: no
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no

Last edited by alphaniner (2014-12-22 22:49:46)

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jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: Time incorrect

Are you using ntp or systemd-timesyncd?

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...

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2handband

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Registered: 2011-01-21

Posts: 58

Re: Time incorrect

@jasonwryan: ntp

@alphaniner: Sorry for cutting that off. RTC is identical to UTC.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,587

Re: Time incorrect

Those aren't mixed up, they're correct. You've just got your RTC set wrong; it's in localtime, but the system thinks it's UTC. Fix one or the other.