You can set time and date with the date command date -s 20070212 for the date and date -s 1540 for the time (3.40 pm)
On 2/12/07, joe henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
arnuld wrote: > i have installed "Arch Voodo beta1" and using Xfce as desktop. i am in > "Asia/Calcutta" zone. > my Xfce panel is showing wrong time. so i did 2 things: > > 1. changed the default "Canada/Pacific" to "Asia/Calcutta" in "/etc/rc.conf" > 2. cp -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime > > > but still clock is not set :-( i right-click the clock-panel but i do > not see any "adjust date/time" settings. Is there nay file where i > need to put time? > > > how can i set the time? > > Hello, I install the "rdate" package.. Correct the timezone in "/etc/rc.conf" And I put this entry into crontab by root user "0 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s <favorite time servre> /dev/null 2>&1" If you don't want to install NTP of course (I don't)... Joe _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
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