[SOLVED] The clock time at Bunsenlabs is 3 hours ahead of the official

The_Prince · 2022-02-28 07:25:26

Good morning, I introduce myself briefly. I am Ricardo from Chile.I am new to Bunsenlabs.

(I installed it a few days ago).

It seems to me a beautiful, fascinating operating system that has a lot of potential.
I have found some small problems that I have been solving but I do not know the issue of changing the system time and I do not understand how it can be changed and that is why I have registered here to solve the doubt.
I need to adjust the time of my system and if You can help me I will be very grateful.

Thank you very much in advance.
Have a beautiful evening.

Last edited by The_Prince (2022-02-28 20:07:47)

rbh · 2022-02-28 09:47:09

Hi Ricardo, Welcome to bunsenlabs!

When installing, you are asked if you want to syncronize your clock with timeserver, using ntp. See https://wiki.debian.org/NTP and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ … -debian-10.

If you choosed to sync clock, it should sync when computer starts up.

Is it a virtual machine (vm) or physical computer?
I have noticed problem with clock drifting if you let vm sleep.

You can sett correct date / time with commands:

sudo date --set yyyy:mm:dd 
sudo date --set h:m:s

See more info on https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime
Is the clock drifting or does it maybe shows UTC (Greenwich Meridian time)
You can get more info of your clock with command:

sudo hwclock --verbose --show

Last edited by rbh (2022-02-28 11:37:37)

brontosaurusrex · 2022-02-28 13:45:41

Also to check if timezone is set correctly:

 timedatectl | grep -i zone

deleted0 · 2022-02-28 15:30:34

^ Systemd setups only.

8bit

rbh · 2022-02-28 17:24:23

eight.bit.al wrote:

^ Systemd setups only.

No. From man timedatectl:

timedatectl may be used to show the current status of time synchronization services, for example systemd-timesyncd.service(8).

Note "for example".

I have not systemd-timesyncd.service, but "timedatectl status", returns:

$ LC_ALL=C timedatectl status
               Local time: Mon 2022-02-28 18:23:33 CET
           Universal time: Mon 2022-02-28 17:23:33 UTC
                 RTC time: Mon 2022-02-28 17:23:33
                Time zone: Europe/Stockholm (CET, +0100)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: n/a
          RTC in local TZ: no

Bearded_Blunder · 2022-02-28 17:40:48

brontosaurusrex wrote:

Also to check if timezone is set correctly:
 timedatectl | grep -i zone

^ using two programs `timedatectl` and `grep` instead of just one.

2 ways to find out with one:

$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/London

Or if you prefer the code & offset:

$ date +"%Z %z"
GMT +0000

@eight.bit.al ^ init agnostic

Obviously if your timezone differs from mine you'll get different output.

The_Prince wrote:

I am Ricardo from Chile.

So they should probably see:

$ cat /etc/timezone
America/Santiago

Though I suppose one of the other two available are also possibilities.

If it's wrong then open a terminal:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

I think Picking America & then scrolling a long way down to Santiago will be correct (most of Chile).
Though you might want America > Punta_Arenas or concievably even Pacific > Easter (for Easter Island)

Last edited by Bearded_Blunder (2022-02-28 18:46:32)

The_Prince · 2022-02-28 19:10:33

Thank God I have fixed it. I have used only two commands and it was too easy to correct the time zone.

$ cat /etc/timezone

This command returned something like etc/UTC if I remember correctly. He was clearly wrong.
Then continue with the next command.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Select America/Santiago and problem solved.
Thank you all very much for your kind help and time.

Bearded_Blunder · 2022-02-28 19:13:48

Glad to help.
If you could possibly edit your first post & put [SOLVED] at the start of the title, it saves the moderators some work.

#1 2022-02-28 07:25:26

[SOLVED] The clock time at Bunsenlabs is 3 hours ahead of the official

#2 2022-02-28 09:47:09

Re: [SOLVED] The clock time at Bunsenlabs is 3 hours ahead of the official

#3 2022-02-28 13:45:41

Re: [SOLVED] The clock time at Bunsenlabs is 3 hours ahead of the official

#4 2022-02-28 15:30:34

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#5 2022-02-28 17:24:23

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#6 2022-02-28 17:40:48

Re: [SOLVED] The clock time at Bunsenlabs is 3 hours ahead of the official

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Re: [SOLVED] The clock time at Bunsenlabs is 3 hours ahead of the official

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