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brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Time Is Constantly Incorrect

For some reason, ever since I've had Arch installed (re-installed a few months ago) my time has always been wacky in KDE. Even though I repeatedly set my timezone to Eastern/New York City and the correct time it always seems to go back to the timezone of Vancouver, BC, Canada and the time will be anywhere from an hour to 5 hours off. I have no idea on how to permanently fix this.

yngwin

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Registered: 2009-05-08

Posts: 67

Re: Time Is Constantly Incorrect

Have you followed the advice from the wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time

If you still have time skew, then it's a good idea to install and configure NTP: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … e_Protocol

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: Time Is Constantly Incorrect

I'm looking through that now, I think the problem is that each time /etc/rc.conf gets updated the default value for timezone is Pacific time, because I'm sure I changed it to America/New York when it now says Canada/Pacific.

edit: just set the hardware and system clocks to the correct time and set the correct timezone. Lets see if it stays that way.

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-08-07 06:43:55)

cirnOS

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Registered: 2010-03-01

Posts: 107

Re: Time Is Constantly Incorrect

follow this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … col_daemon

make sure your hwclock sees the correct time first.

hwclock --debug

Then find US ntp servers then put that in /etc/ntpd.conf

http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: Time Is Constantly Incorrect

My KDE clock is set to New York so it displays the correct time, yet when I mouse over it it says Vancouver under it and then when I look in rc.conf is says TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific", how can I get it to stop changing my timezone? I have a webserver set up now and the time on the logs are like 3 hours behind because it thinks I'm on the pacific coast. This is extremely annoying  to have to change constantly. I've never had this problem in the past 2 years that I've used Arch, it just started happening a few months ago.

As a quick fix I symlinked /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Pacific to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York