Arch Linux Screen Resolution

[oosterhouse]

Ok now I have a different problem. My clock is 5 hours ahead, even though:

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE=America/New_York

I have windows on my system also, but it still doesn't work if I set it to "UTC". Any ideas?

[oz]

If you are dual-booting with Windows, you don't want UTC. Leave localtime in there but I think you need to remove those quotes. If the time is still wrong after the changes, set it correctly in Windows and when you reboot into Arch, all should be good to go.

[oz]

oosterhouse, I'm away from by Arch box at the moment but I'll check it as soon as I return to it and let you know for sure about those settings, because you may need those quotes.

In the interim, try setting your time under Windows, then reboot into Arch to see what happens.

[oosterhouse]

I tried setting it to HARDWARECLOCK=localtime, didn't work. Also, my windows clock is on time.

[oz]

Leave the quotes in, and take the _ out of New_York so that it looks like NewYork. Let me know...

[oz]

Make it look like this:

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE=America/NewYork

[oosterhouse]

Nothing with either of them. I thought you had to set it to UTC if you had windows on your system? Atleast that's what the installation guide said.

[oz]

Nothing with either of them. I thought you had to set it to UTC if you had windows on your system? Atleast that's what the installation guide said.

You might have misread it. If you run Windows and Linux, you want localtime:

HARDWARECLOCK
Either UTC if your BIOS clock is set to UTC or GMT, or localtime if your BIOS clock is set to your local time. If you have an OS installed which cannot handle UTC BIOS times correctly, like Windows, choose localtime here, otherwise prefer UTC, which makes daylight savings time a non-issue and has a few other positive aspects.
TIMEZONE

[oosterhouse]

Ok I did misread, thank you for clearing that up. I've been looking around for stuff about this clock issue but can't find anything useful.

[oz]

I'm still away from my Linux boxes at the moment, so take a look in /usr/share/zoneinfo to see how they have New York listed. It used to be like I've indicated above but that could have changed since I last looked at it.