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Noki

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Registered: 2018-06-08

Posts: 100

Clock appears broken

Hi, I'm having an issue with the clock on my Dell XPS 15 9550 running Arch 4.17.14-arch1-1-ARCH.

KDE is unable to display a time in the corner and the calander is broken too.

I have a sym link to my region under /etc

localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

And when I run "sudo hwclock --systohc --utc" it shows no error

However when I run "hwclock --show" this is the output:

    hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
    hwclock: Use the --verbose option to see the details of our search for an access method.

Then "hwclock --verbose" gives:

    hwclock from util-linux 2.32.1
    System Time: 1535125827.549803
    Trying to open: /dev/rtc0
    No usable clock interface found.
    hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

Could this be a battery issue as opposed to software config?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: Clock appears broken

What is the output of dmesg?

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: Clock appears broken

Also, what is the output of 'timedatectl' ?

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,842

Re: Clock appears broken

While rtc's are awesome, they're not mandatory for a proper system time and some KDE issue does not imply a disfunctional system time at all.

cal; date

Also check dmesg for rtc related messages/errors.

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