On 07/03/2016 03:50 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Kennoth, I am on a mac using easteron. I am the us ohio. NewYork > would be the closest time zone . I think it is a matter of changing > it to use america/new_York if that makes sence. > > > Matthew > > On 07/03/16 22:39, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-general wrote: >> On 07/03/2016 03:27 PM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have >>> a bare boons system to install to at the moment. Any way I have a >>> problem whare my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us. >>> I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not >>> found. I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have >>> it showing 4 hours ahead of it self. Any ideas on how to fix this. >>> I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead >>> of using the exhisting file. How can I change my time to the corect >>> local time? Thanks. >>> >>> Matthew >>> >>> >> Hi Matthew, >> Did you set the timezone correctly? If so, is your virtual machine >> using your machine's time as UTC? If it is, then make sure that you set >> your timezone as UTC. >> > There are named timezones in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/US directory; try ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime then check the date. If this does not work, try replacing US/Eastern with UTC. -- Kenneth Jensen
