I seem to be unable to change the time zone. The option to set date and time automatically is greyed out. When I select the time zone tab of the date and time settings module and try to change the time zone to where I currently am right now, I get multiple pop up windows, each with an OK button in the corner. The first one states "Unable to change NTP settings", the second states "Unable to set current time", and the last says "Unable to set timezone".
Anyone have any ideas of where to start?
Jodie
This is after a fresh update to 3.2 and reboot.
(Apologies about that. This is the first group I've seen that does these bottom posts)
I have already tried that, and it fails with "Failed to set time zone: Unit systemd-timedated.service is masked".
No, I didn't. But that gives me a few avenues to explore. Thanks!
Okay, so this is a workaround. What I ended up doing was symlinking (manually) /usr/share/zoneinfo/myrelevanttimezone to /etc/localtime.
After that, because it still bothered me that it didn't work for me as it did other people. I unmasked the systemd-timedated.service with the command:
systemctl unmask systemd-timedated.service
Now, it works as John described. I'm not sure why it was masked, though. Perhaps fodder for a future enquiry.
Although I am glad that I have the right time zone now. :^)
System wide. I was doing all of this in dom0. I fixed it yesterday (so nice to have the right time)!