How to set time ?

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Since I change timezone in “Date&Time KDE Control module”, after every reboot time became wrong.
I had try to change file /etc/sysconfig/clock, but nothing has changes.
Is here another way to do it?

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On 2014-03-07, kartashevVladimir <kartashevVladimir@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Is here another way to do it?

Have you tried YaST?

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The running system depends on the symbolic link at “/etc/localtime”. That needs to agree with what is in “/etc/sysconfig/clock”.

As another responder suggested, the best would be to use Yast, which will probably manage to keep everything consistent.

For temporary zone changes, as when traveling with my laptop, I just set TZ in the environment in my shell profile. The desktop software should all inherit that value of TZ.

A few lines from “.profile”


### check for a temporary timezone change.
if  -r $HOME/timezone.sh ] ; then
        . $HOME/timezone.sh 
fi

If traveling to New York, I would create “timezone.sh” with


TZ=US/Eastern
export TZ

and, on return home, I would delete that file.