Porteus

Posted: **21 Apr 2018, 17:58**

OS: Porteus LXDE 4.0rc4 64bit

My RTC is kept in UTC.

Boot with 'timezone=Europe/London' cheatcode

$ cat /proc/cmdline 
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64 noswap zram=33% base_only nomagic norootcopy nonetwork timezone=Europe/London

# hwclock -r
2018-04-21 14:02:07.228703+0000

$ date
Sat Apr 21 14:02:37 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2018

$ cat /etc/hardwareclock
...
localtime

The correct Europe/London time (British Summer Time) was 15:02.

Boot with 'timezone=Europe/London utc' cheatcode

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$ cat /proc/cmdline
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64 noswap zram=33% base_only nomagic norootcopy nonetwork timezone=Europe/London utc

# hwclock -r
2018-04-21 14:12:22.011099+0000

$ date
Sat Apr 21 14:12:38 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2018

$ cat /etc/hardwareclock
...
localtime

The correct Europe/London time was 15:12.

Boot from ISO with 'timezone=Europe/London utc' cheatcode

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$ cat /proc/cmdline
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=(loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64.iso noswap zram=33% base_only nomagic norootcopy nonetwork timezone=Europe/London utc

# hwclock -r
2018-04-21 14:47:43.760025+0000

$ date
Sat Apr 21 14:47:50 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2018

$ cat /etc/hardwareclock
...
localtime

The correct Europe/London time was 15:47.

Boot with 'timezone=Etc/UTC utc' cheatcode

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$ cat /proc/cmdline
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=boot/porteus/Porteus-LXDE-v4.0rc4-x86_64 noswap zram=33% base_only nomagic norootcopy nonetwork timezone=Etc/UTC utc

# hwclock -r
2018-04-21 14:33:26.088080+0000

$ date
Sat Apr 21 14:33:37 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2018

$ cat /etc/hardwareclock
...
localtime

I would have some question connected to the above: What will happen if I manually sync the time with 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org' command, while the time zone is not set? Which timezone's time I will get from the server? If I run 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org' command, my RTC will be set (altered) too, or only the system time?

Posted: **23 Apr 2018, 16:09**

If I run 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org' command, my RTC will be set (altered) too, or only the system time?

Only your system time. That said, you can now test your first question without screwing your RTC. This clock question has been asked a few times onthe forum. Dig around a bit and you should find the walkthrough.

Posted: **03 Jun 2018, 19:16**

And the result was: running "ntpdate pool.ntp.org" command did not sync the hours (only the minutes and seconds) when not was set the timezone. And did not set the RTC, too. To set the RTC from system time, you have to run "hwclock --hctosys" command. So, no problems...

Meantime, I switched to Porteus LXDE 4.0 x86_64, and here work the timezone cheatcodes.

Posted: **03 Jun 2018, 19:21**

Hi por01.
You can apply this time hack

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su
toor
cp /etc/localtime{,.bak} && rm /etc/localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime && ntpdate pool.ntp.org && hwclock -lw

Posted: **03 Jun 2018, 19:55**

Thank you, but what is "toor" command, and for what?

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root@porteus:~# toor
bash: toor: command not found

Posted: **03 Jun 2018, 21:58**

por01 wrote: ↑
03 Jun 2018, 19:55
Thank you, but what is "toor" command, and for what?

What do you enter after you enter the su command?

Posted: **03 Jun 2018, 23:40**

Understand now. But this is a secret, you should not write here... I do not need it since always login=root

Posted: **04 Jun 2018, 04:54**

por01 wrote: ↑
03 Jun 2018, 23:40
...But this is a secret, you should not write here...

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/issue

Everyone sees this while booting Porteus.
In general, changing the root / user passwords is not a bad idea.

Posted: **04 Jun 2018, 12:55**

I kow that...

But "/etc/issue" is new to me! Thanks.

Posted: **05 Aug 2018, 15:20**

Understand now. But this is a secret, you should not write here... I do not need it since always login=root

That made my day!

por01 wrote: ↑
21 Apr 2018, 17:58
timezone=Etc/UTC utc

Perhaps the problem is here. You don't seem to have a hardware clock using utc so remove that cheat. Also your cheat should be something more like timezone=Europe/London

Porteus

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work

Timezone and RTC timescale cheatcodes does not work