Time is off by 5 Hours

**josolanes** · 07-13-2005

I'm pretty sure I have the right time zone set and i did "date MMDDHHMMYYYY" during the install, but my time resets back to 5 hours late when i restart.

i've rerun "date ....." again after the install and I rechecked my time zones and the BIOS clock (which is set correctly btw), but my computer seems to want to set back 5 hours

Does anyone know of any other causes and how I might fix this?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: maybe it's something to do with "UTC"....what is that? before using linux, i've never even heard of it before. is it a certain time zone used or internet time or what? sorry, i've never really understood it, but now that i think about it....this *may* be the cause (though i'm not sure...it may very well be something else)

**LondoJowo** · 07-13-2005

UTC is the same as GMT. Set your clock to use local time and the problem should be fixed.

**josolanes** · 07-13-2005

Originally Posted by LondoJowo

UTC is the same as GMT. Set your clock to use local time and the problem should be fixed.

how would i change that?

iif you mean the gui clock, than i don't think that's what the problem is (though i thought that at first too). when i type "date" i still get the time that the gui shows. it doesn't seem to store the time when i change it using "date ......." or it resets it at boot (i think that's what it's doing....i remember it saying "setting time to UTC" or something along those lines).

thanks for helping

**nalg0rath** · 07-13-2005

On Gentoo:

Code:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/&#91;yourzone&#93; /etc/localtime

Replace [yourzone] with the right zone, list zones:

Code:

ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/*

I used this (Sweden):

Code:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Stockholm /etc/localtime

**josolanes** · 07-13-2005

Originally Posted by nalg0rath

On Gentoo:

Code:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/&#91;yourzone&#93; /etc/localtime

Replace [yourzone] with the right zone, list zones:

Code:

ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/*

I used this (Sweden):

Code:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Stockholm /etc/localtime

thanks!

I didn't know "America" was a folder and not a generlal timezone used :o. I now have my timezone set correctly, I'm sure of this....but the time is still off

Now it's off by 4 hours....getting closer lol

When my system is booting up, one of the checks it does says:

Code:

Setting system clock to hardware clock &#91;UTC&#93;

that sounds to me like what my problem might be....i'm now curious how i make it look for my local timezone. i did set it according to your instructions (which seemed like a more detailed version of what the gentoo handbook had

), but for some reason it wants to use UTC still...

**variant** · 07-13-2005

to keep your clock perfectly in sync with the rest of the world use ntp http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTP its easy

**loft306** · 07-13-2005

Originally Posted by variant

to keep your clock perfectly in sync with the rest of the world use ntp http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTP its easy

and if like here on my server if the deamon dosnt do what it is suposed to you can also set it as a cron...though this tut is better than the one i followed

**josolanes** · 07-13-2005

to the above two:

thanks! i'll give it a shot

. i like the idea behind it

EDIT: yay!! that fixed it!

thanks a lot!

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