[Solved] UTC showing, not local time

UnderMiner · 2016-09-29 02:11:19

Hi,
I'm new to linux so bear with me here.
I installed BunsenLabs on my laptop and all went well but the time is showing up incorrect. It shows UTC and I want it to show my local time (in the top right corner).
I've tried all the things I could find on this forum after a search but to no avail. Am in Denmark and the time is now 04:08 but it shows 02:08... it's 4am and it shows 2am for you people that use that.
So in short, how do I get it to show my local time?

Last edited by UnderMiner (2016-09-29 12:15:32)

Horizon_Brave · 2016-09-29 03:06:42

Hi there, I think you may want to run through the setup script by using:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

This should give you the option to select your local tz

ohnonot · 2016-09-29 05:31:57

sorry but how do you know it is showing UTC? does it actually say "UTC" somewhere, or is it just showing the wrong time?
please open a terminal and enter "date" and show us the output.

the wrong time can have various reasons - are you dual booting with windows? is your timezone set up correctly? are you connected to the internet? is your cmos battery dead?

in additioon to our help i'd refer you to the debian wiki, for bunsenlabs is debian.

PS:
Welcome to the forums! I like your alias, it's so subversive!

Last edited by ohnonot (2016-09-29 05:32:51)

UnderMiner · 2016-09-29 11:41:24

Horizon_Brave:
Tried running the script and it lets me set my time zone and all but, I want the desktop clock to show CEST and not UTC.

ohnonot:
I know it's showing UTC because it says so in the corner. The CMOS battery isn't dead, I'm connected to the internet (it's from my laptop I'm writing this), I'm not dual booting because I didn't want to pay for a Windows DVD.
All I want to do, in a nutshell, is to have my desktop clock show CEST instead of UTC.

I tried reading the wiki but that didn't help me either. If you have more ideas I'd appreciate it, as I said I'm totally new to linux so any help would be great

UnderMiner · 2016-09-29 12:05:48

nobody:
Tried the script but it didn't help.

I did however figure something out. I may have mislead you all into thinking it was the time in the top bar that was wrong but I have now figured out it's the "conky" that's wrong. How do I change this line:
UTC:${alignr}${utime %H:%M}
in the conky to show CEST? I can change the UTC to say CEST but that doesn't change the time... am I making myself understood?

UnderMiner · 2016-09-29 12:12:53

Figured it out on my own guys.
CEST:$alignr ${tztime Europe/Copenhagen %H:%M}
was all I had to edit in the conky. Messed it up a few times but got it working with the "tztime" command. All is well again

Another question now, how do I mark this as solved?

UnderMiner · 2016-09-29 12:19:00

Figured that out too. Thanks for all your great help guys. I really appreciate the time you took to help me out with this. You have a great community here with loads of knowledgeable people and you can be sure I'll check back in if I have some trouble.
I will ofcourse also help others if I can but seeing as this is my first time on linux I doubt I have a lot of contributions to make.
Take care and have a great day.

Horizon_Brave · 2016-09-29 14:35:10

lol... glad to help? You literally seemed to figure this one out on your own mate!

kdaffef · 2016-10-20 11:24:01

this helped me to show local time in France !.
Thank you

Last edited by kdaffef (2016-10-20 11:24:16)

Horizon_Brave · 2016-10-20 15:31:53

I really love how older posts here can be used as a sort of repository (if people bother searching) for troubleshooting things for other people. Thanks for reporting that this helped you kdaffef.

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[Solved] UTC showing, not local time

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