Clock resets to previous locale

Zmyrgel · 06-08-2006, 04:59 AM

Hi,

I'm having a small annoyance if my gentoo. I installed it when I was still in Finland and now that I have moved in Ireland the clock still shows the time in Finland (GMT +2) instead of Ireland's time(GMT +0).

I have copied the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Dublin into /etc/localtime but that didn't work. Then I changed the time using date command but it resets every time I boot my laptop.

Any idea how fix this for good? Should be a small task to someone who knows how to do it.

Samoth · 06-08-2006, 06:52 AM

try /etc/conf.d/clock. I don't use Gentoo and can't look at the config file for you but that is where it is configured. I would guess maybe you have the clock set to UTC and you need to change it in /etc/conf.d/clock.

Zmyrgel · 06-08-2006, 08:10 AM

Yeah, sorry I forgot to mention that I've set the /etc/conf.d/clock value from "UTC" to "local" when installing gentoo and it's still is.

Samoth · 06-08-2006, 10:54 AM

hmmmm, is the clock right? i mean, are you sure that the internal clock isn't completely messed up? or is the time consistent. Maybe there is something in your BIOS that is causing all the problems.

Zmyrgel · 06-08-2006, 12:43 PM

Yeah, I haven't check the BIOS at all. I'll check it and tell how it goes after I find out where I'm gonna sleep here in dublin

All places seem to be booked full...

Samoth · 06-08-2006, 03:56 PM

Dublin, wow. so, I am guessing it is about 8:00 over there at the time of your post? Cheers.

<<Samoth>>

Zmyrgel · 06-09-2006, 03:21 AM

Yeah, It was

Note to all traveller's... book a hostel for a longer time than your staying. Saves you from a lot of trouble.

We found a "hostel" to sleep in. Looks like a place where you get stab in the ribs when you enter so hopefully make through the night.

The clock issue was solved by modifying the BIOS time. Again, stupid me of not checking that out but thank you for pointing my error to me

Go back to work I shall now.

Samoth · 06-09-2006, 07:05 AM

Glad to have helped. That wasn't very stupid of you. I thought of it by thinking...."He seems not to have any troubles with the OS, so it must be something outside of the OS". And that helped me too, because I have problems similar to that. And many other people have asked this question so I will rate it.Cheers!

<<Samoth>>