Time - problem

savsav · posted: 2008-09-04 01:19

I dual boot ubuntu 8.04 and antix 7.5

The time in ubuntu is correct. For example, it shows that the time is now 9:15 PM Eastern September 3 -- USA time.

In antix , the time is four hours ahead (Greek time, perhaps?).

So, according to antix, it is now 1:15 AM on September 4

If I change the antix time, the four hour difference with ubuntu remains unchanged.

What's going on?

masinick · posted: 2008-09-04 12:58

savsav wrote:I dual boot ubuntu 8.04 and antix 7.5

The time in ubuntu is correct. For example, it shows that the time is now 9:15 PM Eastern September 3 -- USA time.

In antix , the time is four hours ahead (Greek time, perhaps?).

So, according to antix, it is now 1:15 AM on September 4

If I change the antix time, the four hour difference with ubuntu remains unchanged.

What's going on?

Hi, Dual booting is no problem, antiX M7.5 can work cooperatively with many different systems. In order to set the time correctly you should visit the Control Centre. In Fluxbox, you do this by right clicking to get the menu, select Settings --> Control Centre, then select the Hardware tab, then Set Date and Time.

When you do so, a terminal console will pop up, requesting the root password. Provide the password, then a package configuration tool appears, where you can set the country, followed by the Time Zone you want to use.

Does that solve the problem? Make sure you use the same time zone and convention as you use in the other system and everything will work as expected.

Hope that helps you out. Thanks for using antiX!

mariel77 · posted: 2008-09-04 14:27

I usually have to reset the time in the bios on the next reboot in addition to changing the time using the antiX control center, as masinick said. I did think it was just that my laptop is older though, so you may not need to do this.

savsav · posted: 2008-09-04 16:10

No, that did not help.

Control center - set Date and Time = useless.

Any other suggestions.

masinick · posted: 2008-09-04 16:47

savsav wrote:No, that did not help.
Control center - set Date and Time = useless.

Any other suggestions.

What happened when you tried the Control Centre? Did it allow you to select your Timezone? Are you using localtime or GMT (UST) to manage the time on your other system?

eriefisher · posted: 2008-09-04 20:17

You can use"hwclock" in the terminal to set things up. You need to be root.

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root@compaq:/home/eriefisher# hwclock
Thu 04 Sep 2008 04:01:54 PM EDT  -0.000319 seconds

This will tell you what the hardware clock is set at. If it is wrong then....

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 hwclock --set --date="9/4/2008 16:01:54"

to set the time and date. Use day/month/year hour/minute/second. Then you can set the system clock to the hardware clock.....

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hwclock --hctosys

You will probably need to restart x or reboot to see the change. It always works for me. For more info see"man hwclock" in the terminal.

OU812 · posted: 2008-09-12 12:40

I had this problem too. I think it was because I was trying different distros and somehow that messed up my time. I fixed the problem by using an older antix release:

1. Load older livecd.
2. Set time.
3. Reboot and remove livecd.

john

nt351 · posted: 2011-11-25 21:43

M11

How to make M11 to keep hardware clock set to local time ?

hwclock --hctosys --localtime does not seem to work. After reboot, time is 13:00 for a while then jumps to 21:00; date over-rides hwclock

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root@7k:/home/k7# date
Fri Nov 25 21:32:29 UTC 2011
root@7k:/home/k7# hwclock
Fri 25 Nov 2011 01:32:35 PM UTC  -0.719382 seconds

in rcS I said no to UTC, to no avail

rokytnji · 28 Nov 2011, 00:50 #9 2011-11-28 00:50

Have you ran the dpkg reconfigure tzdata command in terminal yet?

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges"
linktext was:"http://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges"
====================================

nt351 · posted: 2011-12-02 17:12

No, I have not run dpkg; and when I did, it did not do anything
What I would like is that I set the time in BIOS, and after that everybody leaves it alone; no need for timezones, for daylight savings

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-12-02 17:42

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata as root

nt351 · posted: 2011-12-28 17:29

Perhaps, that would have worked, too; this is what overcame the predicament for me:

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real time clock

[*] set system time from RTC on startup and resume

CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y

Now I have a bzImage that is of a very co-operating nature (and a 450mb hard-drive installation __{{emoticon}}__ )