[SOLVED] Time Issue

RAH · 2008-07-08 13:23:45

Hello,

For some reason my Arch Linux installation appears to be providing various web services with incorrect times - for example GMail thinks it is 6:16AM now yet it says that an email I just sent was sent 8 hours ago. My local time is 2:23PM. I don't have this issue in Windows.

Thanks.

Last edited by RAH (2008-08-02 10:49:02)

Inxsible · 2008-07-08 15:24:10

RAH wrote:

Hello,
For some reason my Arch Linux installation appears to be providing various web services with incorrect times - for example GMail thinks it is 6:16AM now yet it says that an email I just sent was sent 8 hours ago. My local time is 2:23PM. I don't have this issue in Windows.
Thanks.

What have you set your HardwareClock as in rc.conf ? UTC or localtime?

I had the same problem that my time was screwed after installing Arch. I had to manually set the date and time and then update the hardware clock.

You can set the date using the

date

command and then use

hwclock

to set it to the hardware clock. Use the man pages for both to see the syntax

RAH · 2008-07-08 15:26:39

HardwareClock is set to localtime.

date and hwclock are displaying the correct details.

Hence not sure where the problem lies here.

kclive18 · 2008-07-08 15:37:06

Gmail's time is most likely supplied from Google's servers and not your Arch machine. It may be your Google Account profile settings that is set to the wrong time zone (mine is set correctly to the Eastern Time Zone).

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Inxsible · 2008-07-08 15:48:29

kclive18 wrote:

Gmail's time is most likely supplied from Google's servers and not your Arch machine. It may be your Google Account profile settings that is set to the wrong time zone (mine is set correctly to the Eastern Time Zone).

That is true...but then he would have the same problem in Windows as well - as long as he is talking about the same GMail account.

RAH · 2008-07-08 15:51:08

This is odd. I changed the time zone to the correct one and it didn't make any difference, but yes it works and has worked fine in Windows. I've noticed the same issue with other things like Kayako.

RAH · 2008-08-01 13:04:28

Hmm - just noticed something. When I hover my cursor over the clock in Gnome it says (PDT). The time is correct but the time zone is not?

Cerebral · 2008-08-01 13:18:38

Is your TIMEZONE setting in /etc/rc.conf correct?

RAH · 2008-08-01 18:09:25

Changing the timezone to GMT or Greenwich seems to completely knock off my clock, now it's 5 hours ahead. I don't understand why this is so complicated...

Also I can't find how to manually adjust the time, the option in the Gnome manual regarding the adjust time option - that option is not displayed for me. Perhaps it can only be done in root but Gnome doesn't work as root.

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finferflu · 2008-08-01 18:38:06

Check this out.

What I basically did was adding a time.cron script in /etc/cron.hourly (making sure it was executable):

ntpdate -b <ntp server address here>

RAH · 2008-08-01 19:46:26

finferflu wrote:

Check this out.
What I basically did was adding a time.cron script in /etc/cron.hourly (making sure it was executable):
ntpdate -b <ntp server address here>

That's one option but there must be a simpler way surely?

rooloo · 2008-08-01 22:16:30

RAH wrote:

finferflu wrote:
Check this out.
What I basically did was adding a time.cron script in /etc/cron.hourly (making sure it was executable):
ntpdate -b <ntp server address here>
That's one option but there must be a simpler way surely?

yes, just run ntpdate/ntpd as a daemon in rc.conf on boot.

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !iptables network netfs crond alsa hal fam slim @ntpdate @ntpd !bftpd @lighttpd !sshd !mysqld)

read the wiki and search the forums, there are plenty of old threads with this exact same question, that where solved.

Here is a small list of threads, http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?sea … 1502064960

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B-Con · 2008-08-01 22:59:02

rooloo wrote:

Here is a small list of threads, http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?sea … 1502064960

Search links expire, btw.

rooloo · 2008-08-01 23:01:24

B-Con wrote:

rooloo wrote:
Here is a small list of threads, http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?sea … 1502064960
Search links expire, btw.

in that case search for 'ntpd clock', you will get same list I had.

RAH · 2008-08-02 10:48:45

Strange, this one seems to have solved itself after a few reboots. Thanks for everyones help.

kclive18 · 2008-08-02 13:28:24

No problem.

I use openntpd to keep my computer's clock correct, and it is very easy to set up: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Net … l#OpenNTPD

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