I’ve been trying to set my clock to display local (New York) time, but it insists on displaying UTC, which is 4 hours earlier. I actually did get the problem corrected at one point, but the clock eventually reverted to UTC again. How can I get it to stick with local time? (I’m running Windows in another partition, so whatever I do should be able to survive a system switch.)
On Wed 27 Feb 2013 03:56:01 AM CST, pwabrahams wrote:
I’ve been trying to set my clock to display local (New York) time, but
it insists on displaying UTC, which is 4 hours earlier. I actually did
get the problem corrected at one point, but the clock eventually
reverted to UTC again. How can I get it to stick with local time?
(I’m running Windows in another partition, so whatever I do should be
able to survive a system switch.)
Hi
You can uncheck the box via YaST -> System -> Date/Time
I set my BIOS clock to UTC, you can use the command;
date --utc
There is a registry tweak for windows which I used to set the time to
UTC;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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also, it looks like you can configure network time by clicking change and selecting synchronize with ntp server (with ntp enabled as daemon and utc enabled i believe the computer will keep hardware time correct unless i’m mistaken)
What is “it” you are talking about? Computer clock itself does not display anything. You should be using some program to display time. So tell which program you use, how you invoke it and its output. Or better copy and paste all of this.
There is some article about this by jmcdaniels, but I can not find it 
IIRC there is a bug in the setting of the hardware clock to UTC/local time. It does not stick.
I will try to find the article.
And indeed, when you multiboot with a Windows system, you should set that setting to “local” (allthough it seems to be possible to cure newer Windows verions into using UTC from the hardweare clock).
On 2013-02-27 10:36, hcvv wrote:
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> There is some article about this by jmcdaniels, but I can not find it
> IIRC there is a bug in the setting of the hardware clock to UTC/local
> time. It does not stick.
> I will try to find the article.
What is UTC or GMT Time & a possible issue with openSUSE 12.2 and its
solution.
SDB:Configuring the clock
> And indeed, when you multiboot with a Windows system, you should set
> that setting to “local” (allthough it seems to be possible to cure newer
> Windows verions into using UTC from the hardweare clock).
Yes, with W7. I recommend that method.
To the OP: report the time you get with these two commands:
date
hwclock --debug
Paste that here inside code tags. Advanced editor, ‘#’ button.
Posting in
Code Tags - A Guide
If the time shown by those commands is correct, your system is correct,
don’t touch it. The problem is with KDE or whatever you use.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Take a look at this one: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/what-utc-gmt-time-possible-issue-opensuse-12-2-its-solution-116/
Maybe it helps.
On 2013-02-27 13:46, hcvv wrote:
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> Take a look at this one: http://tinyurl.com/crw99kg
> Maybe it helps.
That’s the one I posted 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I searched for it all the time and when I found it I posted it without looking further. But I admit you were first.
BTW I can not find any Search functionality in the Articles section 
On 02/27/2013 03:06 PM, hcvv wrote:
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> BTW I can not find any Search functionality in the Articles section
try googles site specifier
site:forums.opensuse.org/blogs/ [search terms]
like
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:forums.opensuse.org/blogs+GMT+UTC
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dd
Yes, I know, Google is a medicin for everything.
But I think it is a shame when there is a bunch of articles that there is no “Table of contents” or another easy way to look what is there.
I agree that the articles and also the blog section are hard to search with any precision, probably just a normal function of the backend used on the site and also the nature of the blog.
I also have seen this very same type of post at least 5-10 times in the very short time I have been here. I have actually experienced this myself and was able to fix it via a search on the forums along with previous experience with a Windows 7 dual boot situation.
It seems to me there should be a sticky or some how-to that should be referred to before everyone has to hash over the same answers to this problem. I guess the fist thing would be to encourage the search function or maybe the site should just use a google search of the forums, articles, blogs instead of how it works now.
> it is a shame . . . no “Table of contents”
+1
maybe such would be better in the wiki or forums how-to ??
but, the trouble with blogs, wiki pages and forum threads is that the
only people who see them are those who look for them…and, in this
day and age there is SO much “out there” that one must use some kind
of magic medicine or . . .
well, it is the same for any of table of contents or movies, books
and music…
one has to know they are there before they are likely to be found…
not much of those kinds of things knock on your front door to try to
tempt you to read…(though i do remember the old days when a guy
selling encyclopedias did knock on the front door!!)
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dd
Use advanced search to search through blogs and articles(use the required checkbox)
https://forums.opensuse.org/search.php
It seems we are now going much off-topic here 
It is not about you all giving me a solution to jump through hoops to find a specific article I was searching for (and knew it exists and my way to solve it was directly asking the author of the article), but it is about the general way to do this for every interested girl/guy that might stumble into the forums (regular members NOT excluded) and that then from the main page click on the Articles button high up there (it seems to be one of the main chapters of our forums) and then ends up here: https://forums.opensuse.org/content/
There is no Search function at all there! And you may start choosing Articles by Category and then you get a page structure that only shows four or five of them in no particular order (to me). And then you can go page after page. No list of only the titles, then you could use your browsers search function. This is a Sisyphus type of ordeal.
Again, this is not about me asking for by-pass solutions to find something, this is about a type of presentation that will shy people away from our Articles.
On 2013-02-27 15:06, hcvv wrote:
> I searched for it all the time and when I found it I posted it without
> looking further. But I admit you were first.
>
> BTW I can not find any Search functionality in the Articles section
I have a “gnome tomboy note” where I store useful things to paste into
forums answers. That link is there O;-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
On 2013-02-27 16:56, hcvv wrote:
> But I think it is a shame when there is a bunch of articles that there
> is no “Table of contents” or another easy way to look what is there.
Absolutely.
Sometimes you know the article exists and it is impossible to locate it
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
There’s a scary warning that you get if you uncheck the UTC box in the Time module of Yast, implying that the local time will not be correct. That warning is, as far as I can tell, bogus; even in the presence of Windows as a dual-booted system, the time is maintained correctly if that box is unchecked. I unchecked it and have had no problems; I expect that even when Daylight Savings Time kicks in, I will be OK, based on previous experience.
On 2013-02-28 06:26, pwabrahams wrote:
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> There’s a scary warning that you get if you uncheck the UTC box in the
> Time module of Yast, implying that the local time will not be correct.
> That warning is, as far as I can tell, bogus; even in the presence of
> Windows as a dual-booted system, the time is maintained correctly if
> that box is unchecked. I unchecked it and have had no problems; I
> expect that even when Daylight Savings Time kicks in, I will be OK,
> based on previous experience.
No, the warning is not bogus at all. I have been following the time
setup problem in “SuSE” for over a decade, so I know. They have been
fighting issues on this for many years, and recently they have abandoned
attempts to get it always right if you use local time in the BIOS. It is
up to you to keep track of daylight and other changes.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Mmm after a decade, you must be a Time Lord by now. 
That must mean if I dual boot with Windows, it will take care of dst changes in my BIOS (as always). Linux will assume that situation and do nothing, if UTC box is unchecked. In fact the KDE panel clock here has the word Local underneath the time (now at GMT).
If I didn’t dual boot with Windows, and check UTC box, will linux now take care of dst changes by correctly (as per time zone configured) updating its system/desktop clock, leaving the BIOS at UTC (i.e. unchanged)?