Arch time issue...

[Scott Vargovich]

I have the right time zone for my area which is GMT-5 - USA/Michigan, but the time is actually showing GMT.  Is there any way I can get the clock set the right way.

Thanks,

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[Jeremiah Bess]

I've always had to reboot to get it to change the active time. You might have to do some research and find some process to restart. 

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of five.

 

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[Neil]

You have the timezone set where? It should be different distro-to-distro, and GUI-to-GUI, but the system settings and those in a panel widget aren't necessarily the same.  You may be able to set your user time, but only root be able to set system time, for example.

And as Jeremiah notes, there may be lag. When I was running Gnome, changing the timezone didn't change the clock until it updated say a minute later. On Debian, I've so far needed a reboot after the following (next time I need to, I'll be trying to work out 'tzselect'):

# /usr/sbin/zic australasia

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Incidentally, while we're on time changes; has anybody tried out this?
Run sudo -k, then set your clock to 01.01.1970 now run sudo su and boom you're root