Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 07/07/2016 07:19 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York >/etc/localtime

That's incorrect. There should be no '>' there.

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Jude DaShiell]

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York >/etc/localtime 
That's a one time operation and should have been one of your beginning 
installation steps.  I got many of mine from the beginner's guide which 
is longer and more informative.


On Sun, 3 Jul 2016, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:


Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 16:27:56
From: matthew dyer via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org>
To: arch-general@archlinux.org
Cc: matthew dyer <ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com>
Subject: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

Hi all,

I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have a bare 
boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a problem whare 
my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.  I have tried running 
NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not found.  I want the clock to show 
the correct local time and not have it showing  4 hours ahead of it self. 
Any ideas on how to fix this.  I want to show it in .profile, but it just 
creates a new file instead of using the exhisting file.  How can I change my 
time to the corect local time?  Thanks.


Matthew





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Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general]

Part of the beginner's guide tells you exactly how to do this. How did
you install Arch?

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:24 AM, matthew dyer via arch-general
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> The date is set fine it is just the time that is off..
>
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07/03/16 20:56, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:
>>
>> On 07/03/2016 03:50 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
>>>
>>> Kennoth, I am on a mac using easteron.  I am the us ohio. NewYork
>>> would be the closest time zone .  I think it is a matter of changing
>>> it to use america/new_York if that makes sence.
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> On 07/03/16 22:39, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:

 On 07/03/2016 03:27 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have
> a bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a
> problem whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.
> I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not
> found.  I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have
> it showing  4 hours ahead of it self.  Any ideas on how to fix this.
> I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead
> of using the exhisting file.  How can I change my time to the corect
> local time?  Thanks.
>
> Matthew
>
>
 Hi Matthew,
   Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine
 using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you set
 your timezone as UTC.

>> There are named timezones in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory; try
>> ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime then check the date.
>> If this does not work, try replacing US/Eastern with UTC.
>>
>>
>
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> Sent from my Arch Linux VM

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[matthew dyer via arch-general]

Hi,


The date is set fine it is just the time that is off..


Matthew




On 07/03/16 20:56, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:

On 07/03/2016 03:50 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:

Kennoth, I am on a mac using easteron.  I am the us ohio. NewYork
would be the closest time zone .  I think it is a matter of changing
it to use america/new_York if that makes sence.


Matthew

On 07/03/16 22:39, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:

On 07/03/2016 03:27 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have
a bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a
problem whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.
I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not
found.  I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have
it showing  4 hours ahead of it self.  Any ideas on how to fix this.
I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead
of using the exhisting file.  How can I change my time to the corect
local time?  Thanks.

Matthew



Hi Matthew,
  Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine
using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you set
your timezone as UTC.


There are named timezones in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory; try
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime then check the date.
If this does not work, try replacing US/Eastern with UTC.




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Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[matthew dyer via arch-general]

Hi,


I got the timezone set america/new_york.  Will see what I can do about 
getting the time set correctlly eventually.  I thought after setting the 
correct tz it would set the correcrt time from ntpd, but it is still 
showing the time differenrt then what the time is by over 4 hours.  For 
example, current local time here is about 6:20 here but when I check the 
time using orca, I see that it is about  10:20 or in orcas catse it is 
22:20.  It is very strange.


Matthew




On 07/03/16 20:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:27:56 +0200, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:

How can I change my time to the corect local time?

Don't correct local time, chose the wanted local time.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time#Time_zone


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Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:50:17 +0200, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
>On 07/03/16 22:39, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:
>> Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine
>> using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you
>> set your timezone as UTC.
>Kennoth, I am on a mac using easteron.  I am the us ohio. NewYork
>would be the closest time zone .  I think it is a matter of changing
>it to use america/new_York if that makes sence.

No, if the virtual machine get's local time, then 

"The hardware clock can be queried and set with the timedatectl command.
To change the hardware clock time standard to localtime, use:
# timedatectl set-local-rtc 1" -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time

IIRC a long time ago I experienced an issue. Just setting to local time
didn't work. IIRC I needed to repeat it,

# timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
# timedatectl set-local-rtc 0
# timedatectl set-local-rtc 1

or I had to do a similar strange workaround.

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general]

On 07/03/2016 03:50 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
> Kennoth, I am on a mac using easteron.  I am the us ohio. NewYork
> would be the closest time zone .  I think it is a matter of changing
> it to use america/new_York if that makes sence.
>
>
> Matthew
>
> On 07/03/16 22:39, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:
>> On 07/03/2016 03:27 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have
>>> a bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a
>>> problem whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.
>>> I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not
>>> found.  I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have
>>> it showing  4 hours ahead of it self.  Any ideas on how to fix this.
>>> I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead
>>> of using the exhisting file.  How can I change my time to the corect
>>> local time?  Thanks.
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Matthew,
>>  Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine
>> using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you set
>> your timezone as UTC.
>>
>
There are named timezones in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory; try
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime then check the date.
If this does not work, try replacing US/Eastern with UTC.


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Kenneth Jensen

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[matthew dyer via arch-general]

Kennoth, I am on a mac using easteron.  I am the us ohio. NewYork would 
be the closest time zone .  I think it is a matter of changing it to use 
america/new_York if that makes sence.



Matthew




On 07/03/16 22:39, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote:

On 07/03/2016 03:27 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have
a bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a
problem whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.
I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not
found.  I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have
it showing  4 hours ahead of it self.  Any ideas on how to fix this.
I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead
of using the exhisting file.  How can I change my time to the corect
local time?  Thanks.

Matthew



Hi Matthew,
 Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine
using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you set
your timezone as UTC.



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Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:27:56 +0200, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
>How can I change my time to the corect local time?

Don't correct local time, chose the wanted local time.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time#Time_zone

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general]

On 07/03/2016 03:27 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have
> a bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a
> problem whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us. 
> I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not
> found.  I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have
> it showing  4 hours ahead of it self.  Any ideas on how to fix this. 
> I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead
> of using the exhisting file.  How can I change my time to the corect
> local time?  Thanks.
>
> Matthew
>
>
Hi Matthew,
Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine
using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you set
your timezone as UTC.

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Kenneth Jensen

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[Damjan Georgievski via arch-general]

On 3 July 2016 at 22:27, matthew dyer via arch-general
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have a
> bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a problem
> whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.  I have tried
> running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not found.  I want the clock
> to show the correct local time and not have it showing  4 hours ahead of it
> self.  Any ideas on how to fix this.  I want to show it in .profile, but it
> just creates a new file instead of using the exhisting file.  How can I
> change my time to the corect local time?  Thanks.

I didn't understand half of what you said, but:

a) to set the system wide timezone  use the command:
timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

b) to enable a ntp client you can use systemd-timedate, enable it with:
timedatectl set-ntp yes


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damjan

[arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

[matthew dyer via arch-general]

Hi all,

I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have a 
bare boons system to install to at the moment.  Any way  I have a 
problem whare  my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us.  I 
have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not found.  I 
want the clock to show the correct local time and not have it showing  4 
hours ahead of it self.  Any ideas on how to fix this.  I want to show 
it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead of using the 
exhisting file.  How can I change my time to the corect local time?  Thanks.


Matthew


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