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Alberto-Trujillo

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From: Poole, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2017-02-21

Posts: 66

[SOLVED] Location change

Good afternoon,

I'm using i3 on a mac

Please, can you help me understand the steps to follow to change a system that was installed with

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

but I would like to change to "Europe/Madrid?

I did this,

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid
hwclock --systohc
vim /etc/locale.gen

and I change this,
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
by,
es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8

locale-gen

But the system stopped working correctly and I returned it to how it was originally.
At the moment I have London time and not Spain time.

Thank you

Last edited by Alberto-Trujillo (2024-04-23 16:47:33)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,182

Re: [SOLVED] Location change

You missed updating /etc/locale.conf

As for "the system stopped working correctly", that doesn't cut it, you have to tell us actual problems.

Alberto-Trujillo

Member

From: Poole, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2017-02-21

Posts: 66

Re: [SOLVED] Location change

Good morning, thank you Scimmia,

Ok, first thanks for telling me what I missed, and I'll try to do it again.

Regarding what the system stopped working correctly, is that when I changed the location, I restarted and logged in again within i3, but the status bar did not show my Wi-Fi connection, nor other details such as HD capacity, used memory and available, etc.

Thank you again, and have a good day!

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Alberto-Trujillo

Member

From: Poole, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2017-02-21

Posts: 66

Re: [SOLVED] Location change

Hello Scimmia,
Please excuse my last message, and ignore it completely.
On this occasion I followed the initial steps again, and also included the one that I had ignored and that you reminded me of, editing the /etc/locale.conf file and everything went very well.
I also had to edit the .i3status.conf file.
I list here the steps to take for those who consult this thread.

$ sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid /etc/localtime
$ sudo hwclock --systohc
$ sudo vim /etc/locale.gen
$ sudo locale-gen
$ sudo vim /etc/locale.conf

Thank you very much for your time, and I mark this question as resolved.

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