Setting the time...

[adimauro]

Ok, this may seem like a simple thing, but for some reason it's not working. I am running Suse Linux 7.0, I go to KDE2, the system settings, date & time, I click "run as root", type in the password, set the date and time...fine, no problem. Then I shut down the computer, and when I restart, the time is set 14 hours ahead. It won't stay changed.

The time zone is set correctly. Do I have to go into the bios to set the time? What else could it be? Any suggestions?

[X_console]

Maybe KDE is buggy? I dunno. Try using the "date" command:

date MMDDhhmmYY

Eg:

date 1225143002

Sets the date to 25 December 2002, 2:30PM

[posterboy]

I wrestled with this a while, myself. I have RedHat here. See if you have a command hwclock. If so, try this:
hwclock --systohc
Here's what I "think". date mmddhhmmyyyy sets the software time, but doesn't affect the RTC. hwclock --systohc does just what it looks like, it forces the software time into the hardware clock. After that, no further issues here for me. Running NTP is an easy one to get going, and ends all these issues for all time (pun intended). It fixes the software time and the hardware time and syncs it all to a really close tolerance. See a page on it at: www.raymondjones.net/ntpguide.html (http://www.raymondjones.net/ntpguide.html)
Ray



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[jlany]

As you are using KDE2, go into the 'Control Panel', expand 'Personalization' open 'Country & Language' and make sure they are not set to 'default' ( should be set to USA and English). Then open up 'System' and set date and time. Log out. Log back in. The time/date settings should now behave. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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