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Karibu
10-21-2017, 05:31 AM
I Installed Knoppix 8.1 on Hard drive.
There is an issue with the Time setting.

Here is what I found out so far:

a) The BIOS of my MSI motherboard is set to universal time UTC.

b) In /etc/adjtime I find
'0.000000 1177000000 0.000000
1177000000
UTC'

c) After setting my time zone via ---> Preferences ---> Date and Time to 'America/Vancouver
I checked /etc/timezone and found the right entry - America/Vancouver - and the right time appears in the panel.


After each restart/reboot of the computer, /etc/timezone is overwritten with 'localtime'
and I have to set the timezone new as I did before.

What can I do to have the /etc/timezone entry permanent?

fredvej
10-21-2017, 12:33 PM
use boot cheat code tz=America/Vancouver

Karibu
10-21-2017, 07:55 PM
I have a multi system configuration - Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10.
I installed Knoppix and I have to select the system I want to use from a grub.conf. menu which comes up after start.
Where do I have the access to enter the cheat code for Knoppix?

Karibu
10-21-2017, 10:42 PM
I have a multi system configuration - Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10.
I installed Knoppix and I have to select the system I want to use from a grub.conf. menu which comes up after start.
Where do I have the access to enter the cheat code for Knoppix?

Here is the entry for Knoppix boot in my grub.cfg. Where would I have to enter the code 'tz-America/Vancouver?


menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux (buster/sid) (on /dev/sdc1)' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-gnulinux-simple-d3e1c0de-0517-45d5-b1a8-518122a550b8' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod reiserfs
set root='hd2,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd2,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd2,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci2,msdos1 d3e1c0de-0517-45d5-b1a8-518122a550b8
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root d3e1c0de-0517-45d5-b1a8-518122a550b8
fi
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 rootwait lang= apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq tz=localtime loglevel=1 lang=en apm=power-off initrd=minirt.gz nomce hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 rw
}

Karibu
10-22-2017, 02:13 AM
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 rootwait lang= apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq tz=localtime

:confused: I guess this would be the line where I have to replace tz=localtime to ---> tz=America/Vancouver ?

Karibu
10-22-2017, 03:36 AM
I guess this would be the line where I have to replace tz=localtime to
---> tz=America/Vancouver ?

:idea:Yes exactly, that's the line....it works probably for all cheat codes...Great feature...This might be my main Linux OS from now on!

Thank you fredvej for the hint...Issue [SOLVED]

Karibu
10-28-2017, 05:39 AM
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I also had to change timezone in
-> Root/boot/grub the menu.lst

default 0timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue

title KNOPPIX
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 rootwait lang= apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq tz=America/Vancouver loglevel=1 lang=en apm=power-off initrd=minirt.gz nomce hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 rw


(when running Knoppix)

Capricorny
11-11-2017, 09:21 AM
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I also had to change timezone in
-> Root/boot/grub the menu.lst

(when running Knoppix)

Welcome to micro- (or was it nano-?) remastering of Knoppix :-)
You can do quite a few adaptations by editing the kernel parameters. For example, doing multi-booting in a more orderly fashion.