changing the clock settings

Tine Brumec agrabah at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 22:01:25 CEST 2006


No, not really. Exactly 1 hour after the real time here in Slovenia.

Ti e.

On 3/27/06, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like potentially your CMOS battery is dead. Does it reset to a
> round hour, roughly?
>
> On 3/27/06, Tine Brumec <agrabah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ... did not do the trick :(
> > When I rebooted my computer the clock settings reverted to the old,
> > wrong settigns. There must be something wrong with the env variable
> > TIMEZONE; although I don't understand what /etc/rc does in the process
> > of setting the clock, I see that the aforementioned variable is pretty
> > important. But when I do an echo $TIMEZONE I get blank output, like
> > the variable wasn't set (but according to /etc/rc.conf it i set to
> > CET).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Ti e.
> >
> >
> > On 3/27/06, Tine Brumec <agrabah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks! That did the trick... I was looking for something like
> > > "clock", or "time", but nothing was there.
> > >
> > > Ti e.
> > >
> > > On 3/27/06, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 3/27/06, Tine Brumec <agrabah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > >
> > > > > Again came the time of year when the clock had to be set forward for 1
> > > > > hour. I tried to set it (the clock on the panel), but I found no
> > > > > provisions for thah.
> > > > > A friend told me to set the timezone in /etc/rc.conf to CET, but
> > > > > nothing happened (btw. I'm CET - Slovenia).
> > > > >
> > > > > What should I do?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Use the date command (try man date)
> > > >
> > > > > Ti e.
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