Setting the Time not Working :\

cameron122000 · 2008-03-02 20:14:49

I've been trying to set the correct time on my machine for a while now, but Arch still keeps saying that I'm in CET. I've gone into /etc/rc.conf and edited the correct strings. Currently, I've got it set to UTC, and the timezone is America/Los_Angeles. I've tried UTC and US/Pacific, UTC and US/Pacific-New, as well as localtime. Any ideas on what is keeping it from correctly setting the time?

skottish · 2008-03-02 20:20:10

Welcome to the forums.

Try adding

TZ='America/Los_Angeles'; export TZ

in /etc/profile. Then run

source /etc/profile

Last edited by skottish (2008-03-02 20:21:41)

cameron122000 · 2008-03-02 20:26:12

I ran it. Do I need to reboot in order for it to take effect?

skottish · 2008-03-02 20:28:12

cameron122000 wrote:

I ran it. Do I need to reboot in order for it to take effect?

I was hoping that running 'source /etc/profile' would do the trick. If not, rebooting should.

cameron122000 · 2008-03-02 20:31:36

Just rebooted. Still no change. :\ It says it's 8:30PM tonight, but it's only 12:30PM right now.

azleifel · 2008-03-02 20:41:11

8 hours is the difference between UTC and PST. If you have the BIOS clock set to your local time then the entries in /etc/rc.conf ought to be:

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="America/Los_Angeles"

Only set HARDWARECLOCK to UTC if the BIOS clock is set to UTC.

cameron122000 · 2008-03-02 20:43:00

That's the thing though. If I go into my BIOS, it's currently set to UTC. So then HARDWARECLOCK should be UTC, but for some reason it's not setting the right timezone.

ebirtaid · 2008-03-02 21:00:52

try running ntpd?

skottish · 2008-03-02 21:07:24

openntpd is much easier to set up. It may take a few log ins to get fully synced.

azleifel · 2008-03-02 22:01:08

I use openntpd too. In the meantime, just out of curiosity, I set my rc.conf to UTC (same as GMT, which is my local timezone anyway) and America/Los_Angeles, rebooted and found that it was suddenly much earlier in the day...

aboutreefitty · 2008-03-02 22:53:40

try running these as root:

date MMDDhhmmCCYY  
hwclock --utc --systohc
hwclock --show

cameron122000 · 2008-03-02 23:50:27

Nope it's still not working. All of these different things that I'm trying should at least change the time to a different number, but it's not changing at all. It keeps only using the UTC time, almost like it's not loading the timezone.

azleifel · 2008-03-03 00:04:04

Are you using KDE or some other DE that lets you independently set a different timezone for a session?

cameron122000 · 2008-03-03 00:33:22

I'm using Openbox, but I'm using the time Conky is displaying.

dyscoria · 2008-03-03 00:35:05

cameron122000 wrote:

I'm using Openbox, but I'm using the time Conky is displaying.

That uses your system time (either localtime or UTC).

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