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Freedom · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 30

In Puppy 1.03 my clock is 1 hour slow. I have tried to change time zones but it does not make any changes to the time no matter what zone I select.

And Xclock just seems to be an anolog type display which is also 1 hour slow.
Is there a way to correct this?

rarsa · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 19:55 Post_subject:

The standard linux way of changing the date is through the console.

Open a command console (rxvt) and type the following command

Freedom · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 30

Well rarsa.
I tried to use the clock from net program and it gave the same thing the other did. 1 hour behind.

I looked over your instructions and it took a min for me to figure out what you were saying with the time and date and all but once I figured it out. I changed the time so that it is correct with out problems. Thank you for your help. Very Happy

Ian · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 20:54 Post_subject:

Did you try using the Set time/date in Control panel after you set the timezone.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

also, the time may not adjust automatically for daylight-savings-time, which could make it an hour off (you would have to reset the clock time yourself)

rarsa · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 22:21 Post_subject:

Actually after I suggested looking at the 'internet time' DotPup I tried it myself.

Apparently it requires that the system date is UTF. My system clock has the local time (GMT -5) so when I set the time with the Internet time utility it set it 5 hours slow.

Oh, another thing for GuestToo: The 'Internet time' utility shows that you should set your timezone first, and it gives as an example New York +5, actually New York is -5 meaning that when it is 7 GMT it is 2 EST.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

my /etc/TZ is EST5EDT
which means Eastern Standard Time (offset = +5) and automatically use Eastern DaylightSavings Time

as far as i know, the offset for EST is +5 ... not -5

Flash · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 22:56 Post_subject:

Can anyone say why the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC? Confused

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time

rarsa · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 23:48 Post_subject:

Well, those utilities have it backwards as it is normally accepted in timezone maps (and Other linux tools and other OS's tools)

http://www.worldtimezone.com/
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/us_tzones.html

It is normally accepted that -5 is EST.

Flash · Posted: Thu 21 Jul 2005, 00:40 Post_subject:

Thanks for the explanation. It explains why several Linux distros I tried would get the time way off, and then when I'd get it set right in Linux and boot back into Windows it would be way off in the other direction.

The wonderful thing about standards is there are so many to choose from. Crying or Very sad

peppyy · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 429 Location: VT USA

I had no luck at all setting the time until I went to the bios and first set the correct time there. The problem is that this bios does not support time zones so when ever I set the system time from the internet it sets to utc in the bios. I really should update my bios but I don't trust my floppy drive or my cdrom.

I named it well-enough and left it alone.

Very Happy

Freedom · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 30