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Pyntux

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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Date and time problem

I have strange issue with Arch Linux when I reboot and boot Arch after Kubuntu Linux. Time is not good, two hours late, so if time is 21:00 in Arch is 19:00. I set up time, but when reboot and came to Arch from Kubuntu, problem with time is here again. I set time to local time Europe/Belgrade if that is important. How to resolve this?

Last edited by Pyntux (2009-08-25 19:11:23)

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Mr.Elendig

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Re: Date and time problem

Sounds like you are mixing localtime and utc. Try seting both ubuntu and arch to use the same.

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Pyntux

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Re: Date and time problem

OK, I will try, but I think both are using local time...

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Pyntux

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Re: Date and time problem

The same problem with Arch when put in Kubuntu local, like in Arch an when put Europe/Belgrade on both sistems...Very strange...

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SpeedVin

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Re: Date and time problem

Try setting time like you want , just type:

date time that you want

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Pyntux

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Re: Date and time problem

I tryed everything, but same problem every time...Time in arch is two hours late...

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t4k1t

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Registered: 2009-07-19

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Re: Date and time problem

You could use ntp (or better openntp) to get the correct time from time-servers but that's just a dirty workaround here..

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Mr.Elendig

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Re: Date and time problem

I tryed everything, but same problem every time...Time in arch is two hours late...

If it's exactly 2 houers late, then it sounds like it may be a time zone problem.

Try reinstalling the package that provides the timezones, and do a cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Where/Ever /etc/localtime

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-08-28 13:40:08)

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brisbin33

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Re: Date and time problem

going off of the recent influx of time related posts... two quick sanity checks:

  -- you don't have an /etc/rc.conf.pacnew lying around do you?

  -- you aren't specifying local in rc.conf are you? (it should be localtime)

aside from that, continue with the wise Mr Elendig's advice.

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Pyntux

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Re: Date and time problem

rc.conf:

LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Belgrade"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

If I put localtime or just local I have same problem like with "UTC", so I tried to set bios time two hours i future and than set time in Arch correct because Kubuntu will set time by himself from bios. For now everything working, but this solution is so dirty, very, very dirty....

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