Resetting clock local time.

[E-Tramp]

Alright, I am a little disappointed that someone didn't post a process here, but, I ended up figuring it out myself, so since I couldn't find anywhere on the internet that gave a detailed step by step process for doing this I will put it here for others who want to know. I found on the internet that Ubuntu uses the command 'tzselect'. I thought what the heck plug it in and see if it works. In Ubuntu it had to be led with '~$', however that wouldn't work in Debian. So I just input 'tzselect' in terminal and wahlah, it asked me for what continent or ocean? The correct response was #2, or Americas, then it asked what country, which was #49 or United States, and finally which time zone, which was #22 or Pacific. Unfortunately this does not permanantly establish the time zone on the computer. But, what it does do is give you the information to make it permanant. It reads as follows: "The following information has been given: United States Pacific Time Therefore TZ='America/Los_Angeles' will be used. Local Time is now: Thu Jan 24 11:13:15 PST 2013 Universal Time is now: Thu Jan 24 11:13:15 UTC 2013 Is the above information OK? #1yes #2No #1 (enter) You can make this change permanant for yourself by appending the Line TZ='America/Los_Angeles'; export TZ to the file '.profile' in your home directory: then Log out and Log in again. Now the first thing you will find is that when you go to your "home" folder that it has nothing in it but the Knoppix folder. And if you try to put anything in it you will be told you don't have permissions to do so. The reason being is when they say your "home" folder what they really mean is your "Knoppix" folder that the system actually defaults to anyway. In that folder you will find a multitude of "Dot" folders and files of various titles, but, the one thing you won't find is one called ".profile". What you do now is you create said file with leafpad, and put it in the Knoppix folder. Now you are probably tempted to just log out to the log in screen then log back in, don't bother it didn't work for me. Just reboot your System and it will come back in Local time. The one thing I didn't find was a way to change to a 12 hour clock. This may require an application. I don't know for sure. Hope this saves a whole lot of people the trouble that I had getting this done. E-Tramp Posts: 4 Joined: 2013-01-24 00:32


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