How to set the OS's date time?

drmagic · 2007-10-27 01:49:35

I'm in arch with the gnome as my desktop environment,but I could not find the way to adjust my system's date time. And when I use 'pacman -S gnome-system-tools' ,there's no that pkg.
Could anybody help me ? Thanks all

skottish · 2007-10-27 01:52:27

Use the 'date' command. Check 'date --help' for options.

Welcome to Arch.

Last edited by skottish (2007-10-27 01:52:39)

drmagic · 2007-10-27 01:54:50

Thanks a lot!
Arch is the most perfect dist I have ever met.

pelle.k · 2007-10-27 04:38:58

Or, adjust the date in BIOS, and then select timezone, and type in rc.conf

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific"

absolutezero1287 · 2009-01-06 22:56:02

I used the date command to change the time but it wasn't permanent.
That's part of my rc.conf

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="US/Eastern"

Any help?

sirius · 2009-01-06 23:06:42

Use 'hwclock --systohc' as root to set hardware time to system time :-)

absolutezero1287 · 2009-01-06 23:54:23

Sirius, good advice but the time is totally wrong, lol.

absolutezero1287 · 2009-01-07 00:03:03

root@satori~# hwclock --set --date="01/06/2009 19:00:00"
root@satori~# hwclock --hctosys

Fixed my problem.
@sirius I basically did what you told me, but the opposite way. Thanks :-)

Edit: I just realized...why would anyone need a GUI to do this? Just read the man page and I got it.

Last edited by absolutezero1287 (2009-01-07 00:04:38)

whukes · 2009-01-07 17:22:31

You could also use openntpd to sync the time automagically.

Make sure your rc.conf timezone is setup correctly then install openntpd:

pacman -S openntpd

Then from a terminal run the command (as root):

ntpd -sd

That should sync your time. To do this automatically at boot just add openntpd to your daemons line in rc.conf. Read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntpd for more info.

absolutezero1287 · 2009-01-08 05:14:23

Thank you. What I was confused was about all the configurations that had to be made but as I read on I saw that that was only if you wanted to run a server.

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How to set the OS's date time?

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