opensuse 12.2, KDE, time not working

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#1

For the last few days, my clock is not constantly reading the wrong time by 12hrs. Can someone help?

#2

I don’t know if your clock is configured the same as mine. I dual boot (with Windows XP installed), and so have the clock set as local time (rather than UTC). A recent update caused my clock to revert to UTC for some reason. This threw out the KDE time reported. I corrected it via YaST>>System>> Date and Time, then all came right again. Hope that helps.

#3

On 2012-11-14 20:16, lord valarian wrote:
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> For the last few days, my clock is not constantly reading the wrong time
> by 12hrs. Can someone help?

There have been at least two threads about wrong time that you should read.

View this
thread:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#4

I usually check first. If I don’t find anything, I post. I was in a hurry. Thanks. It seems to have been corrected.

#5

Have also had this problem in suse 12.2. I adjust time and then it asks for root password, so put it in and then when i click OK, the application crashes, and time is still wrong.

#6

On 2012-11-16 13:26, firestomper412 wrote:
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> Have also had this problem in suse 12.2. I adjust time and then it asks
> for root password, so put it in and then when i click OK, the
> application crashes, and time is still wrong.

Forget KDE, do it the way told in the other thread.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#7

You are booting into windows and linux on same machine, correct?
It my experience you need to do a couple simple things.

  1. go into the machines BIOS and make sure the time there is the correct time (see the machine owners manual for instructions on this)
  2. boot into openSUSE and use yast to set the time and make sure you uncheck the selection to use UTC time. You will get some warning against using local time but go ahead and do it anyhow.

Thats it.

#8

On 2012-11-16 14:26, anika200 wrote:
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> You are booting into windows and linux on same machine, correct?
> It my experience you need to do a couple simple things.
>
> 1) go into the machines BIOS and make sure the time there is the
> correct time (see the machine owners manual for instructions on this)
> 2) boot into openSUSE and use yast to set the time and make sure you
> uncheck the selection to use UTC time. You will get some warning against
> using local time but go ahead and do it anyhow.

I guess that you are saying to use local time, not UTC. I’m double
booting with W7, and I recommend against that: use UTC and modify
Windows to also use UTC. Instructions here:

SDB on
clock

Notice that 12.2 refuses to do clock adjustments if you use local time.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#9

I do agree that the proper method for keeping time is UTC. However, I have not found that registry modification on Windows OS to be reliable on the couple of machines I have here. Unless I really need UTC I have just found it easier to use local time and adjust my clock for Daylight savings time as needed.

#10

On 2012-11-16 16:16, anika200 wrote:

> I do agree that the proper method for keeping time is UTC. However, I
> have not found that registry modification on Windows OS to be reliable
> on the couple of machines I have here. Unless I really need UTC I have
> just found it easier to use local time and adjust my clock for Daylight
> savings time as needed.

My personal experience is otherwise, at least with W7.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))