how to set time userfriendly when cmos battery is dead :/

robino · 2009-09-22 21:49:43

Hi.

I am configuring old laptops with Arch. Now I run into a problem with a 10 year old laptop - the bios battery is dead. And each time I reboot I have to set the time/date manually. I am able to do this in many ways, but all through the console or bios.

I am looking for a solution to do this user-friendly. It runs LXDE and the digital clock applet does not have the feature to change date/time.

What are the suggestions to make sure the user can change time by herself without going into the console? I was thinking of 3 different solutions:

A) Is there maybe a way of doing this a boot-up (a question that is asked for example: please set time and date).

B) Or can I replace the digital clock applet in LXDE?

C) Or is there a configuration editor I can use to do this in a GUI?

Looking forward to your suggestions

Last edited by robino (2009-09-22 21:50:19)

seriouslycgi · 2009-09-22 22:24:58

if you are net connected then you could use ntp theres instructions in the wiki

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTP

you could even run ntp server on your lan and update from that.

robino · 2009-09-22 22:30:32

thanks! but one of the other problems indeed is that the connection comes after boot-up and is done manually...

seriouslycgi · 2009-09-22 22:33:53

new battery (get out your soldering iron)

i guess your looking for a script or something like that at boot up then

sorry its out of my league

*david_a* · 2009-09-24 00:58:35

I think the user-friendly way is the new battery.

R00KIE · 2009-09-24 11:22:53

*david_a* wrote:

I think the user-friendly way is the new battery.

+1 to that
Besides a 10 year old laptop could use a good cleaning inside so it's a good chance to do both things.

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#1 2009-09-22 21:49:43

how to set time userfriendly when cmos battery is dead :/

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