Time Setings in MX17.1

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GTK48
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Time Setings in MX17.1

#1 Post by GTK48 »

The time will not display the proper time or time zone when I boot into MX17. This is also messing up the time in other Distros and in Windows 10. There is like a 60 second or longer delay before the time is set properly. I really like this Distro and would like to keep it, but this problem is a deal breaker for me.Any help with this issue would be appreciated.
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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

#2 Post by Discostu »

Check this article, it should help with the problems you're describing:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/time-settings

I had similar problems after my first installation of MX Linux. If I remember correctly the solution was to open MX Timeset GUI and set hardware time to local time.

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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

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Time-Setting has been moved since MX-15.
Now located at Start-Menu > Settings > MX Time Settings
or, open Whiskermenu and type timeset then press Enter for the MX-Timeset-GUI.
All the rest seems the same.
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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

#4 Post by GTK48 »

OK, I made some changes right after I posted and the Time in MX 17.1 is now working, but when I boot back into Windows 10, the time is off by 4 hours and both are set the same. I set the time as you suggested. Thanks for your help, I will keep on looking at this.
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#5 Post by Richard »

To solve your problem, you need to set the Hardware Clock to Local Time in MX.
Thinkpad T430 & Dell Latitude E7450, both with MX-21.3.1
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

#6 Post by Jerry3904 »

Note to self: this needs to be added to that Wiki article.
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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

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Richard wrote: Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:07 am To solve your problem, you need to set the Hardware Clock to Local Time in MX.
That fixed it, Thank you very much. :number1:
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Richard wrote: Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:07 am To solve your problem, you need to set the Hardware Clock to Local Time in MX.
I prefer to set Windows to use UTC. That way it plays nice with multiple Linux installs on the same system.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ti ... in_Windows
As noted, Win10 needs the QWORD value IIRC.

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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

#9 Post by GTK48 »

sunrat wrote: Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:54 am
Richard wrote: Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:07 am To solve your problem, you need to set the Hardware Clock to Local Time in MX.
I prefer to set Windows to use UTC. That way it plays nice with multiple Linux installs on the same system.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ti ... in_Windows
As noted, Win10 needs the QWORD value IIRC.
That is how I had it set and it was not working.
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Re: Time Setings in MX17.1

#10 Post by sivaraj »

It looks recent mx installer behavior changed for time settings and it forces the computer hardware clock to UTC .
The installer released with March MX-17.1 iso is working fine and do not know when exactly it changed .
But recent updated snapshot iso installer behaves differently .

I feel the installer behavior change is wrong.
Selecting local time or utc and time zone worked well with installer since Mepis days
It is one of a unique mepis linux installer feature which you do not find with others .

But installer of recent snapshot behaves different.
It makes unintended change to hardware clock which is not everyone may wants.
My request instead of changing installer behavior please provide a mx-tool so that user can setup system time based on their preference.

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