TrueOS time clock setting

joboy · 03-02-2017, 12:38 AM

Hi there,

I have a very simple question to ask, how do I change the time clock ? there is no setting for this and the time clock is stuck at UTC, but the time zone is correct, I can set with command line though, the same computer running Linux has no problem, but also the same problem with win10 the time never sync.

dijetlo · 03-02-2017, 03:07 PM

Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo for your timezone name (EST=America/New_York for example) and then set the 'TZ' environmental variable for your user. Log Out/Log in hopefully == problem fixed.

BTW ... TrueOS! Looks like da'bomb. Do us all a favor and write a review...
Once you get your timezone set.

joboy · 03-03-2017, 03:15 AM

The zoneinfo only shows an E what does that mean ? the TZ display correctly on taskbar clock but not the actual time, I set it in command line but it return to UTC next boot.

Review ? you gotta be kid me ! my arms and legs are all over the place, in simple word it is quite broken and incomplete, much broken than Debian where I originated from, in fact, this is the first *BSD I've ever successfully installed without stuck at Xorg, making progress but slooooooow !

dijetlo · 03-03-2017, 06:46 PM

If you have a ~/.bashrc file you can set it there persistently by adding
export TZ=<your time zone>
so it is persistent between reboots. If you don't have a ~/.bashrc, put it in ~/.profile,

Quote:

this is the first *BSD I've ever successfully installed without stuck at Xorg, making progress but slooooooow !

BSD has a learning curve.

--->

On the other hand, I've had a BSD NFS server running in a closet so long my wife has taken to stacking clothes on top of it. ( of course, I've never had the nerve to try to make it spawn an X-server, that just seemed a bridge too far...)

cynwulf · 03-10-2017, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dijetlo

If you have a ~/.bashrc file you can set it there persistently by adding
export TZ=<your time zone>
so it is persistent between reboots. If you don't have a ~/.bashrc, put it in ~/.profile

Probably no bash installed on a FreeBSD system, unless installed from ports.

This might be worth a look also: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook...alization.html

dijetlo · 03-10-2017, 08:14 AM

Now you pull out the manual ?????

thanks

cynwulf · 03-10-2017, 09:34 AM

By the way, I tried to find TrueOS' own documentation for this, but no luck...