On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 10:46:34 AM UTC-5, Ivan Mitev wrote: > Hey, > > On 04/27/2018 06:12 PM, Matthew Wyenandt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to Qubes 4.0 and loving it. I'm having an odd situation where the > > time on my clock is showing -5 from my current timezone, rather than -5 > > from UTC. For instance, I'm physically located in America/Chicago > > timezone, which is -5 UTC. My Qubes OS clock is set for America/Chicago > > timezone, which also says -5 UTC; however, the clock is now showing -10 > > UTC. I've tried to figure out a way to manipulate the clock within dom0, > > but I'm not finding anyway to do so. > > your hw clock is likely set to local time instead of UTC ; this usually > happens because you use(d) MS Windows. > > `hwclock` allows you to tweak the hardware clock; you can manually set > the time and then run `hwclock --systohc --utc`, that should fix your > problem. > > Note that `qvm-sync-clock` is run every hour in dom0 and should fix the > offset automatically: it first syncs dom0's time with the time in > "clockvm" (usually sys-net, see the output of `qubes-prefs clockvm`) and > it then runs `hwclock --systohc`. > > If you still have issues, check that the timezone and time are OK in > sys-net (or whatever clockvm you have defined).
Thanks for this info, Ivan. I followed these steps. Should my sys-net clock be set for UTC? When I run hwclock --show, it's still showing EDT as the current time. Do I need to set this manually? I would prefer that it get updated via ntp. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/56786cd4-7456-448a-89d7-80eead156371%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
