Setting the clock

[krishna.murphy]

I received the following as a Private Message, and it seems like a useful general question for the forum. It's posted here without attribution, as I don't have the sender's permission.

I think i accidentally set the clock incorrectly... now i don't know how to change it back >.<

It's easily done, with root permissions. First set the System Time (from the lxterm):

sudo time-admin

You'll probably want to set the TimeZone as well as the time where you live. The sudo means that the system admin ("root") is authorizing this, rather than a less-privileged user ("knoppix"). Second, set the Hardware Clock to the System Clock time:

sudo hwclock -w 
or 
sudo hwclock --systohc

This will cause the system to keep the clock setting from the current session in future "boots."

Cheers!
Krishna

[kcah]

Thanks
I will try this right away

[kcah]

hmm... it says... time-admin: command not found... hwclock works... tho... still trying to set to the correct time zone...

[kcah]

$ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime

this worked !!!! haha... didn't think of using a command line to fix it... thought there would be some kind of UI for that >.<

[kl522]

private messages don't reach me as I don't read them.