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holmess

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Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 11

Help please

I live in Texas. I use xfce+Archlinux. x86_64 bit amd machine. For the love of god, i cannot get the system clock say the right time. For some reason evolution decided not to start. I am getting tired of Arch unstability. Please help me.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Help please

man date

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finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 1,899

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Re: Help please

I would suggest you to sync your time with ntp. It's very easy.

Install Ntp:

pacman -S ntp

Go to the NTP Servers page, and pick the server you need.

Then run:

ntpdate -b <the server you picked>

That should update your time.

In addition to that you can create a cron job to run daily or hourly, just create a script. Just paste the above command in a file and name it, say, time.cron. Put the file in /etc/cron.hourly or /etc/cron.daily, according to your preference.

This is the best solution I have found, and I quite like it.

Last edited by finferflu (2008-05-05 09:51:19)

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Purch

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From: Finland

Registered: 2006-02-23

Posts: 229

Re: Help please

You can also use ntp daemons (ntpd and ntpdate) from /etc/rc.d after installing ntp package. Pick the best pool from http://www.pool.ntp.org/ as finferflu's NTP server page did not load for me. The default pool in ntp is pool.ntp.org, which redirects to random pool servers around the world. You get more accurate results by choosing a continental or even a country specific pool.

Last edited by Purch (2008-05-05 11:35:14)

Neverth

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From: Finland - Land of taxes

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 45

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Re: Help please

test:
/etc/rc.conf
HARDWARECLOCK to utc if its localtime or vice versa.
Check that TIMEZONE is right.

As for ntp, eg I run /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start with ntp pkg. Never configured it but its good enough for me.

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