Questions relating to time and timezones.
Questions tagged [time]
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What is the command to update time and date from internet
What is the command to update time and date from Internet? Is there any application that allows me to do so from its user interface rather than from the shell?
Vikramjeet
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Will Ubuntu automatically adjust to the leap second at the end of the year (2016)?
The BBC reports:
An extra second will be added to the world's clocks on New Year's Eve
in order to stay in sync with the Earth's rotation.
Does this mean that I have to do anything so that my Ubuntu machine keeps in time with this or will it…
user364819
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Will the Linux clock fail at January 19, 2038 3:14:08?
I am a bit concerned about this. It's called the "year 2038 problem". Is the Linux kernel or Ubuntu ready to handle dates after this yet, as of 12.04?
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How do I change the timezone to UTC?
I just installed a Ubuntu 11.10 box and I'm trying to figure out how to set the timezone to UTC. I have it set to London at the moment, but UTC doesn't appear to be an option.
Help?
Thom
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organization of zoneinfo folder
My questions are related to /usr/share/zoneinfo folder.
Why is there a posix folder, which has the same content and files like zoneinfo? I only checked few files and they had same checksum.
Why is there a right folder? As far as I know are in there…
Domen
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How to change system time or force a sync with hardware clock
My laptop is probably running out of CMOS battery, I know I have to fix it soon, but until then, this very annoying issue keeps me from using it.
Scenario: My system clock is reset to 15/12/08 11:00 AM every time I turn on my computer. This has all…
cpury
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hwclock, not in sync with system clock
My hardware clock keeps going out of sync. I set it to system time a few times, but it keeps going back to a 5hrs ahead state.
Is this normal? Could it make trouble? How come my system clock is functioning properly when my hardware clock isn't?
Untitled
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How do I migrate to UTC hardware clock?
I have been using local time hardware clock because of sharing the machine with a Windows system. Now I don't use Windows any actively and would like to set the hardware clock to UTC. How to reconfigure this in Ubuntu?
PS: I use XUbuntu actually, so…
Ivan
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Time in Ubuntu 16.04 not updating from internet
I am new to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The time on my machine is not updating from internet. I have changed the CMOS battery and also installed ntp and ntpdate and ran sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com. But none of these worked for me.
Running below command…
Flying Gambit
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How to stop automatic time update?
I want to know is there any way to stop automatic time update permanently in Ubuntu 12.04 .
Thank you
Raja G
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Clock is one hour too fast, how do I fix it?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04. I am in Europe/Dublin timezone. My clock is one hour fast. I'm getting time off the Internet. Here is the output from dpkg-reconfigure tzdata at 15:41.
Current default time zone: 'Europe/Dublin'
Local time is now: …
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System hangs on changing time
My machine is always showing an hour ahead of the actual time. I am in Texas currently but the time never picks Day light savings. Any time I click on Set Time(Top Right Corner), my system just hangs right there. I have to turn off the machine each…
t3ch
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Hardware clock is using UTC time
Since yesterday my clock is showing a wrong time.
It is two hours behind on the local time. (This wrong time is UTC, don't know if this is coincidence).
I do have a dual boot with windows, but I don't think that is the problem, because in my config…
Lu Kas
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Can't set correct time
I'm not able to set the correct time on my Ubuntu 14.04 system. It is always nine minutes behind the correct time and makes me being chronically late. Approaches that failed:
ntpdate
sudo service ntp stop
sudo ntpdate -s 0.de.pool.ntp.org
The…
alodi
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How can I display two different time zones at the very top where there is only one now?
I work remotely for a company 16 hours ahead so would like both dates and times at the top if possible. Is there any way without opening an app or a dropdown box? Just always displaying at the top.
I am on a Lenovo Ideapad 3, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and…
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