I have antix 13.2 liveusb with fluxbox. Clock in lower right fluxbox panel is reading five hours early. Time zone is correct. Computer is T42 with windows xp, external usb hd with Crunchbang and Xubuntu, and usb stick with Puppy - all show correct time. I recently posted another question to the forum and the posting time was correct.

Any suggestions on how to correct displayed time?

try the"set date/time" utility in the control center. this is a"utc" vs."local" problem. until you install it, antix defaults to 'utc' I believe. Someone else here can correct me if I'm wrong. I'm also not sure if the setting will survive a reboot on a persistent-usb.

The"set time/date" utility only allowed me to set time zone, which I had already done. I assumed the problem is a local vs. utc issue and have tried several suggested solutions, but none have been effective.

If this is helpful: I noticed after my last post that when I first open the antix forum, the current time at the top of the page is the same incorrect time in the toolbar. After I log in to the forum, the current time at the top of the forum page has changed to the correct time. The same change occurs in the posted times for the replies. The time in the toolbar remains incorrect.

At first I was going to suggest changing the coin battery, but then I realized it was a laptop, Check your bios for the correct time. I've seen software updates CHANGE the time in the BIOS,

After I first starting working with AntiX, I had noticed that my time was off by about 5 hours. I had tried changing the time in the Control Panel, but it wasn't working. One day I was trying to correct a different problem and Logged Out and then Logged In. The time corrected itself and has been accurate since then. Go figure. __{{emoticon}}__

I am not sure on live usb or why your other OSs are all have the correct time . I know i had a similar issue using Win7 and Arch..due to winows using a different setting and the Linux was always defaulting to windows time.

I found this on a Ubuntu site so it would be more relevant for you than trying to use Arch type stuff

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the whole article is about setting time..maybe you need to look at the **Multiple Boot Systems Time Conflicts** section

maybe it will help

Temporarily away, but now back to my problem.

I found another post (post27412.html) in which anticapitalista indicated that the inability to set correct time might be a characteristic of live antix with persistence which cannot be changed.

I intended to post this before finding anticapitalista’s explanation, so it might be irrelevant, but in case it generates more suggestions:
I followed the three steps in

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How to Set the Correct Date and Time
1. cat /etc/timezone: America/New_York
2. hwclock --show: Sun 05 Jan 2014 11:00:33 AM EST This is not current EST.
hwclock --localtime: Sun 05 Jan 2014 04:02:41 PM EST This is correct EST.
3. hwclock --systohc, then hwclock --show: Sun 05 Jan 2014 11:06:16 AM EST Back to the incorrect EST.

Am I doing something wrong, not following the steps correctly, the wrong commands, the wrong order? Or is it simply not possible to correct because it is live usb installation with persistence?

Maybe try using 'date' (in a terminal) - (sudo) date -s MMDDHHMMCCYY will set the month (MM) to 01 (Jan), the day (DD) to 15th, the hour to 10 (HH), & the minutes to 15 (MM), the century to 20 (CC), & the year to 14 (YY).