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azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Time is incorrect

I just did a fresh Arch install and my time is off. My timezone is "America/Shiprock" which I have in rc.conf and its set to local time. On the gnome desktop if I dont use UTC its 6 hours ahead...and if I do use UTC then its exactly 12 hours ahead...ie...its 12:28am here with utc my clock reads 12:28pm and without utc it reads 6:28am. I have had this issue before on Arch and all I can remember is it seems there was some sort of patch or line I needed to add to a file somewhere. I cant remember at all what it was, or how I fixed it. I've googled this problem for about the last 2 hours and Im not finding what I need. Anyone know what it could be?

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FUBAR

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Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: Time is incorrect

Check your BIOS clock and correct your rc.conf accordingly (UTC or localtime). When you've correctly configured your timezone, install ntpd and run ntpdate to synchronize with a time server near you. That's the easiest way to correct the system clock.

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: Time is incorrect

I recommend openntpd over ntpd / ntpdate. Stems from OpenBSD (hence the 'open') and is not only a better alternative but also easier to set up, and said to be safer .

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fernux

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 31

Re: Time is incorrect

pacman -S ntp

then: nano /etc/ntp.conf

in the line server ,change to a ntp server closest to you

then ntpdate  your.npt.server.adress 
run the command two times

azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Time is incorrect

Thanks...worked great

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Eliteforce

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 56

Re: Time is incorrect

rdate also is nice