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Eastern day time in north america

Post#1 by francois » 13 Mar 2016, 14:39

Eastern day time changes in north eastern america. Days will provide longer sunshine. Alas the clock of the panel is wrong or with local time or with UTC New-York, respectively 5:38 and 9:38.

What about you others north eastern americans?

How do you set it right?
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#2 by Slaxmax » 13 Mar 2016, 18:22

1 - set your location cheatcode (timezone)
2 - sync clock with ntp

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root@porteus:/home/guest# ntpdate 0.us.pool.ntp.org
3 - Set the hardware clock from the current system time

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root@porteus:/home/guest# hwclock -w
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#3 by Tonio » 13 Mar 2016, 19:13

@SlaxMan

Your answer helped me fix a computer which had the wrong time. I checked with time.gov in Central Standard Time. Great answer! I had checked other sites, but I had to stop ntpd service and run your ntpdate command and it worked :) I will use it to sync my other machines as well.

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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#4 by francois » 18 Mar 2016, 01:24

@tonio:
porteus 3.2 is coming. This must be good time to come for you. :wink:

This is the panacea. My computer just resumed the good time. :D
Thanks slaxmax.
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#5 by Tonio » 18 Mar 2016, 13:15

francois wrote:@tonio:
porteus 3.2 is coming. This must be good time to come for you. :wink:
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This is great news indeed :) And thanks to slaxman for his instructions to sync the clock as well :) They do help in this time of daylight savings crap :(

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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#6 by francois » 18 Mar 2016, 21:55

Maybe this should be added to porteus setting center.
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#7 by Ed_P » 18 Mar 2016, 23:36

francois wrote:Maybe this should be added to porteus setting center.
Nobody uses GUIs, everything is done via the command line. Just like USM. :D
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#8 by Bogomips » 19 Mar 2016, 01:55

GUIs are somthing that one as a Newbie cannot do without. :unknown:
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#9 by francois » 23 Aug 2016, 02:35

On another linux box, slaxmax procedure is so simple to apply.
Thanks once more. :)
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#10 by francois » 28 Oct 2016, 15:39

To set timezone:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time#Set_clock

To check the current zone defined for the system:

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$ timedatectl
To list available zones:

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$ timedatectl list-timezones
To change your time zone:

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# timedatectl set-timezone Zone/SubZone 
If you are having issues with the offset of the time, try reinstalling tzdata and then setting yourtime zone again:

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# timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles
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This is for systemd. :(
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#11 by Ed_P » 28 Oct 2016, 17:44

Porteus 3.2rc5 Cinnamon 64-bit
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Porteus 3.0.1 LXQT 64-bit

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guest@porteus:~$ timedatectl
bash: timedatectl: command not found
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# timedatectl
bash: timedatectl: command not found
root@porteus:/home/guest# 
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#12 by jssouza » 28 Oct 2016, 19:08

I think timedatectl is used in systemd based Linux systems.

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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#13 by Ed_P » 28 Oct 2016, 21:49

jssouza wrote:I think timedatectl is used in systemd based Linux systems.
In other words not Porteus? Or maybe only for Nemesis?
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#14 by Bogomips » 28 Oct 2016, 22:20

pkgs.org wrote:Search Results for timedatectl
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Re: Eastern day time in north america

Post#15 by Ed_P » 28 Oct 2016, 23:45

BTW & FYI

Worked on a neighbor's pc today. Had to change his BIOS to support booting from my USB drive. Found his pc's system clock set to local time!! What a surprise. :lol:
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