Changing Clock

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lowsodium
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Changing Clock

Post by lowsodium »

Where do you change the time on the clock? I double clicked the time on the task bar and no option to change time came up.
effbiai
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Post by effbiai »

man date

(or for the lazy one who don't wanna read: date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]])
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Post by nobspangle »

or for the person who wants their clock very accurate
emerge ntp
ntpdate address.of.public.ntp.server
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Post by effbiai »

here is 3 ntp servers: ntp.uio.no time.windows.com time.nist.gov
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Post by lowsodium »

thanks for the replies.
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Post by effbiai »

i forgot to mention that.. you should have correct timezone when updating with ntp servers.. ;)
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Post by sonicbootie »

Can you tell me or point me to the correct syntax for the different time zones?

Thanks
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