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Setting time

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• Started 12 years ago by Alexbn
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   Alexbn
   

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   What is the method for setting the time?
   I need to set the clock one hour forward as we now have Daylight Saving time in Norway.

   I'm running SliTaz 3.0.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Darjeeling
   

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   Run tazctrlbox as root then -> Time -> Sync online -> Set from system

   I think, there's also a "Control Box" entry somewhere in the main menu which starts tazctrlbox, too. The last step "Set from system" is phrased somewhat unclearly ... "Set hardware clock" would have been a better description of the function.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   It's under "Start"---> System Tools---> Control Box and it starts as root by default.
   You also may have to install glibc-locale to get a larger range of regions to pick from which you can see in /usr/share/zoneinfo - directories get added before the city like this: Africa/Johannesburg

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Alexbn
   

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   In SliTaz control box, under the "Time" tab, we have

   System time Sun Mar 25 11:47:54 UTC 2012 * Sync online
   Hardware time Sun Mar 25 10:47:54 2012 0.000000 seconds * Set from system
   Timezone UTC-1 -> Change

   The only field I can change is where it says UTC-1, which I've changed to Europe/Copenhagen (same time zone/DST as Oslo).

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Alexbn
   

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   Upoon reboot, time was 2 hours off instead of one, but then wrote UTC-2, which worked (after reboot), and it's now showing the correct time.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Gary
   

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   I need to change my system time too but I don't have Control Box here: Start---> System Tools---> Control Box. I'm running v4.0 RC3 - how can I change the time....it's one hour behind. Thank you.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   aniguenni
   

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   on 4.0-RC3 you'll find sthg. like this:

   start ---> setup ---> time zone configuration

   become root and change the time settings to your needs. afterwards reboot.

   hopefully i'm right, because i didn't try it myself.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Slitaz-4.0
   Applications/Preferences/Time Zone configuration
   Right click desktop/Choose Logout/Close X session: exit/OK
   Login as tux,root,etc.
   Time will be correct if you choose the correct timezone.
   Reboot is not necessary.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   plumtreed
   

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   In my case, I was offered a limited selections of locales which didn't include Australia. I followed trixar_za suggestion and installed additional locales via 'glibc-locale' using System Tools> Package Manager. Then as Mojo says!

   Posted 12 years ago #
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    christophe
    

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    still in 3.0: is there a command line to automate the procedure at startup ? (instead of having to open controlbox each time...)

    Tx

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    mojo
    

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    Depends on the type of installation you have.
    Full install /etc/TZ is persistent.
    Frugal install with persistent /home pack it with tazpkg repack-config,place config-1.0.tazpkg in /home/boot/packages folder so it auto-installs on boot.
    tazusb writefs gzip is another way to save it.
    How to run scripts and unpack/install gzipped files with boot code options :
    http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:frugal Tuning the boot process

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    christophe
    

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    tazusb does not work for me (i get a kernel panic when booting)

    this is a full install, but I am confused.
    I set /etc/TZ to Europe/Paris
    When i start slitaz there is always 2 hours in advance (one hour in winter)and i need to sync it to make it work, or to modify /etc/TZ to go 2 timezone after (works, but not really clean of course)

    Am I the only one to have this problem ?

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    mojo
    

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    The timezone set in /etc/TZ is based on running the motherboard hardware clock set to UTC
    If you multiboot windows on the same motherboard windows sets the hardware clock to real time which in your situation is Paris time.
    Which may explain why your software clock is 2 hours ahead of real time since the current (CEST)Paris time is 2 hours ahead of UTC. Let windows control the hardware clock at real time and set /etc/TZ to UTC so there is no offset between hardware and software clock. Software clock will then display realtime which is what windows sets the hardware clock to.
    If it's not a windows dual boot issue make sure the hardware clock is set to UTC.

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    christophe
    

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    ok, i will experiment a little bit with it.
    Tx

    Posted 12 years ago #
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    Anonymous
    

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    I'm having the same issue. On other Linux systems this setting is stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock, but there's no such file on Slitaz.

    Isn't there any method of telling Slitaz that the hardware clock is already set to local time instead of UTC ?

    Posted 11 years ago #

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