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[MU]

Somewhere else in this board someone asked for it.

It is a modified sample from "xdialog".
The original produced several errors on puppy, for example setting the "--utc" -option and running hwclock in busybox.

Mark

[Lobster]

Excellent - G2 did tell me how to do this from the command line but this is much easier
Hope Barry incorporates it into puppy - very tiny script

Thanks MU - can I call you 'M' for short?

[MU]

Lobster,

you can say "Mark" , M or MU as you like.
MU are just my initials (Mark Ulrich)

>Hope Barry incorporates it into puppy - very tiny script

Please check it first - I don't know exactly what this --utc -option is I threw out.
I hope this will not result in wrong timesettings in other countries.

Mark

[Lobster]

Sorry forgot to mention Mark
- it works on my machine

My clock has been 1 hour back for ages and ran your program and it seemed to work OK - rebooted and still OK (in fact turned off machine - time is still OK)

- does it work on the BIOS?

[PeterSieg]

set date+time util works. Great!

"Gute Arbeit, MU"

PS

[MU]

I think so, "hwclock" should mean "HardWare-Clock".

If you type "man hwclock" you will get a closer explanation of the mechanism.

The script uses
hwclock --set --date="9/6/2005 10:12:56"
(sets the hardwareclock)
and then
hwclock --hctosys
(sets the systemtime from the hardwareclock)

Mark

[MU]

Danke Peter,

Dich kenn ich doch aus dem wxBasic-Board?

Grüße, Mark

[GuestToo]

--utc probably sets your clock to utc (gmt)

Windows boxes usually have the hardware clock set to local time, not utc, so probably most Puppy users would be using local time, not utc

i have a program that sets the clock automatically from the internet, but it requires that you set the time zone correctly (there is 1 correct setting and 23 wrong time zone settings ... Barry's time zone wizard works fine, it's just that the sign is backwards ... so if your time zone is EST, the offset is +5 not -5, and so on)

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[MU]

I see:

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:56 am Post subject:

All times are GMT - 4 Hours

I really don't have an idea

Here it sets the time correct (Germany, Berlin)

Mark

[Guest]

don't know if this help:

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/TimeZone

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[GuestToo]

edoc, if you are in west central florida, that would be the EST/EDT time zone

my time zone is also EST

what i do is run the Puppy Time Zone Wizard and click the +5 button

yes, the wizard says EST is -5, but that's wrong ... the correct offset is +5

then i edit /etc/TZ and change UTC+5 to EST5EDT ... which works the same, it's the 5 that sets the time zone

the time zone should be correct when you reboot
if the time is wrong, it's because the hardware clock is set to the wrong time

you can set the clock from the internet ... i have a dotpup package that does this

get the time from the internet:
(this does not set anything, it just shows what time it is according to your time zone settings ... if your time zone settings are right, it will show the correct time)
rdate -p time.nist.gov

print the system time and date:
date

print the time the hardware clock is set to:
hwclock --show

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