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chomwitt

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2014-09-12

Posts: 33

How can i correct time?

Hi.
After a fresh installation of Devuan with Xfce 4.16.0 i see that the panel clock is wrong althougt the timezone in its properties is correct, 'Europe/Athens'

During installation i choose english us as main language so i guess that's why is 8 hours behind.
But how can i change it?

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Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: How can i correct time?

Run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

…and follow the instructions in the terminal.

You can also set it manually by editing /etc/timezone to include Europe/Athens but you wouldn't want that. Who knows what you may break. The above command should work.

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chomwitt

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2014-09-12

Posts: 33

Re: How can i correct time?

Unfortunately the dpkg-reconfigure  didnt work.
I think whether bios time is used.. or my locale LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LANG=en_US.UTF-8
is the problem.

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Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

Posts: 305

Re: How can i correct time?

Set the bios time to UTC.

check the file /etc/adjtime, can be LOCAL or UTC

chomwitt

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2014-09-12

Posts: 33

Re: How can i correct time?

Setting the BIOS time to UTC and setting my linux's timezone with 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'
the correct time.
Of course that 'correctness' is the time i typed in BIOS + timezones.

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Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

Sideburns

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From: Trinidad, CO

Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 467

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Re: How can i correct time?

The easiest way to make sure the time's right is to have your computer get its time off the network.  If you need to change the time, or your computer isn't always online, you can open a terminal and use the date command to set it.  Check out man date for details.

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Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

Re: How can i correct time?

can this computer boot up and run Windows?