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time wrong

pluto

Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:07:06 am

Hello
I have Zorin 12.2 light 64 bit live on USB flash drive with persistence. All perfect, except the time.
I am in Costa Rica, it is 22:54, but the time in the taskbar shows 4:54 next day.

When I click right the time at the taskbar, the word clock is grey, not available.
When I open the preferences, time zone is Costa Rica and time and date settings show America/Costa Rica and the correct time and date.
It seems that the wrong time and date is also passed to the BIOS.
How can I change time and date showed in the taskbar?
Thank you

zorinantwerp

Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:56:24 am

Hi pluto
Costa Rica beaches I can only dream of :)
are you using a dual boot with windows?
check BIOS setting first and switch if required from local to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, the time at zero degrees longitude)

go to Terminal 'alt+ctrl+T' and start to reproduce your setting
Image
Network time on: yes means that timesyncd is enabled
NTP synchronized: yes indicates that the time has been successfully synced.

then continue
Code:
timedatectl list-timezones

go through the list to find Costa Rica
then insert in Terminal
Code:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Costa_Rica


check after
Code:
date


hope it helps you to play around
as always Swarfendor will come up with the proper reply :)

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Swarfendor437

Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:34:10 pm

Hi zorinantwerp,

You are more knowledgeable than I on this one - I would only have proffered the UTC solution. Many thanks for your input once more. ;) :D

pluto

Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:06:22 am

Hi zorinantwerp,
thank you.
No dual boot, just USB flash.
Bios settings: no local or UTC, just date and time.
I did what you told me, taskbar time is OK, but Zorin passes the UTC to Bios, so I have to change Bios time after each session.

When I boot from USB, I can choose to start between UEFI and non-UEFI. UEFI is without persistence.
So I started with UEFI and found, that all times, also in Bios, were correct. The settings (right click taskbar time) are:
Window "Clock": Timezone empty, that means the local time is used.
Window "Time and date settings": Timezone Etc/UTC.
So I tried to get these settings in non-UEFI:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC
sudo timedatectl set-ntp no
Window "Clock": Timezone America/Costa_Rica > Time in tasbar changed from UTC to Costa Rica :-)
Window "Clock": Delete Timezone Costa Rica, so now empty field. (May be this is not necessary.) Taskbar time still correct.

Now everything is correct, even in Bios.
Grüße nach Antwerpen!

Swarfendor437

Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:33:18 pm

Hi pluto, thanks for sharing your resolution to the issue. ;) :D