(Solved) Setting system time from hardware clock

[loukingjr]

I have Salix 13.37 XFCE installed as a guest in VirtualBox. Everything works fine but, when I start the guest it takes what seems to be a long time to "set the time from hardware clock(localtime), (10-20secs). It also happens when it tries to save the system time on shutdown. Any thoughts on this?

thanks ahead of time.

[gapan]

Most probably an issue with virtualbox itself. What version are you running? See if you there is an option inside the virtualbox settings about setting the clock to utc or not.

[loukingjr]

Most probably an issue with virtualbox itself. What version are you running? See if you there is an option inside the virtualbox settings about setting the clock to utc or not.

actually VB defaults to UTC. I may have set Salix to local when I installed it. Is there a way to change it in Salix itself?

[gapan]

System menu/System clock.

[loukingjr]

thanks much. It wasn't set to UTC and now that it is it's much better.

[rsal]

I know this is an old thread. I had similar problem so before posting I searched and found this. I could correct my problem with this post. But I want to know what is the command line equivalent of this (checking out UTC option in System menu > system clock) ? In other distributions I can change from UTC to LOCAL in /etc/adjtime. But in Salix, it reverts back to UTC on rebooting.

[gapan]

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sudo clocksetup

and if you mean what the actual code that sets the timezone is, this is it:

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	cd /etc
	if [[ "$zone" && -r /usr/share/zoneinfo/$zone ]]; then
		ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$zone localtime-copied-from
		rm -f localtime
		cp localtime-copied-from localtime
	fi

[rsal]

That is a good utility (also there in Slackware installation if I remember correctly). But why not simplify and just have settings in /etc/adjtime picked up at boot time? Well, every distribution is different and Salix is one of the best distributions.

[rsal]

What is the actual command that makes the system know that hardware clock is in UTC (or local) time.

[gapan]

That is a good utility

Thank you!

also there in Slackware installation if I remember correctly

No. That would be timeconfig.

But why not simplify and just have settings in /etc/adjtime picked up at boot time?

That file is not to be edited by hand. hwclock can update it and read from it.

What is the actual command that makes the system know that hardware clock is in UTC (or local) time.

You can edit your /etc/hardwareclock and use hwclock to apply any changes if you want to do everything manually, but I don't see a reason to do that.

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man hwclock

for more details.