Aw: Re: changing the clock settings

[timystery at arcor.de]

Try hwclock in the mean time:

hwclock --set --date 20:15
hwclock --hctosys

and then you can continue browsing on manuals ;-)

htt, fabian

ps: from the manual, you find that the environment variable might be $TZ and you will find more explanations on time configuration in linux, might also apply to *nix systems.

----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Tine Brumec <agrabah at gmail.com>
An:      XFCE general discussion list <xfce at xfce.org>
Datum:   27.03.2006 22:01
Betreff: Re: changing the clock settings

> 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?