My clock INSISTS that I am in Guernsey. I would like to be but I cannot afford it. I have tried right click/adjust date and time/timezone.
I have tried YAST>system>date and time> = set to UK
I tried system settings> general> computer admin > Date and time
It is here where Guernsey is selected, and refuses to change, when I select London, put in password and accept, it refreshes, and come back as… Guernsey.
Any ideas anyone?
Any way to set this from runlevel 3 perhaps?
Why does it make a difference? London and Guernsey are both on Greenwich Mean Time (BST at moment).
Thanks for the contrib.
Have you tried to click on the spanner that pops out when you hover near the clock? That is where you should be able to alter the setting or uncheck the button to show the timezone.
TY John, this is not just the plasma clock, but my main task bar clock… I have tried the setttings spanner on the plasma one…
I was just trying to suggest that if the time is right don’t let the fact that it comes from a different source bother you.
Mine’s the same.
maybe so Peteh, but this is not the only clock problem I have, just the easiest to reproduce and post about…
OTOH If I send a blue shirt to the cleaner, and get a green one back, it doesn’t really matter right? It’s still a shirt…
But but but I wanted a BLUE shirt 
It’s part of a worldwide conspiracy by the GFF (Guernsey Freedom Fighters) to boulster their numbers in preparation for taking over the planet! 
Not at all. The equivalent would be getting your blue shirt back from a different cleaner. If it was clean would it matter?
It would if it was not my shirt…
So is your time different then Guernsey time? Do you own London time? This does seem to be an odd nit to pick.
Well now your analogies are not making sense so I give up.
Oh well…
So I am in Guernsey.:sarcastic: As I mentioned in my post above I have other issues with my clock(s), I thought that first persuading my deluded machine that we are NOT in the Channnel Islands would be for the best before addressing them, but as the forum thinks that my geographical location is a non-issue, let us move on.
Occasionally, (today for instance) when I fire up the PC the clocks all show the time advanced by one hour. As use the computer clock a lot (it being the only clock in the room) this is a major PITA, it is often not until I switch the radio on that I realise I have started work an hour before I thought. Does anyone have an idea as to why this may be? As I say, this is intermittent, not by any means every day.
Is this dual boot running Windows? Or even running Windows in a VM.
Windows assumes that the hardware clock is set to local time. But by default Linux assumes UTC. This can make it a struggle between OS’s to reset the clock to its preferred base. Since you can’t change MS you can go to Yast and set the base to be local.
I have a dual boot installed, but you will be glad to read I have not booted to Windows native for months…
I do have a windows VM (virtualBox) as well, but again it is a while since I fired it up…
Well if Windows touches the clock it will mess it up. So set Linux to use Local time as the base of the hardware clock.
Surely not Gogal??, If I have any windows install anywhere I can’t trust my Linux clock? This can’t be the case?
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:06:01 +0000, wakou wrote:
> Surely not Gogal??, If I have any windows install anywhere I can’t trust
> my Linux clock? This can’t be the case?
What he’s saying, I think, is Linux and Windows manage the clock
differently, and if you dual boot, you have to be aware of those
differences because they can work against each other if you’re not paying
attention.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Thanks Jim, but it cannot be true that a Linux install cannot keep time if there happens to be an (unused) MS OS on the same computer…
If it is really unused. You just have to run Windows once to have it set things to it’s liking which is local time. If Linux is set to UTC it believe the hardware clock to show UTC time not local time. Manually setting the time just adds problems because the hardware clock is still set to local and Linux thinks it is UTC. If you never ever run windows then it is ok to set the base time to UTC and it is really a much better way to handle time keeping. However if you run Windows in any form on a machine you should set the Linux system to use Local time Set the system clock to the local time and forget about it. It is the only way to win the Windows tug of war.
Now if the time is off by something other then even hours then it is possible that you BIOS battery is going dead,