Ubuntu will not let me roll back my system time - Ubuntu

unix · #1 10-31-2007, 09:21 PM

Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST ended...
which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll back manually.
I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and the system time
is an hour fast.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on here, what files I might need
to edit, etc.

Thanks.

Charlie

unix · #2 10-31-2007, 09:33 PM

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:21:44 GMT, Charlie Wilkes
wrote:

>Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST ended...
>which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll back manually.
>I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and the system time
>is an hour fast.

IIRC, Standard time starts this weekend, not last .. Law was changed ..

unix · #3 10-31-2007, 09:43 PM

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:33:06 -0400, George Peatty wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:21:44 GMT, Charlie Wilkes
> wrote:
>
>>Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST ended...
>>which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll back manually.
>>I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and the system time
>>is an hour fast.
>
> IIRC, Standard time starts this weekend, not last .. Law was changed ..

Right you are. Christ almighty... what is the point? To confuse people
like me.

Thanks for the heads up.

Charlie

unix · #4 10-31-2007, 10:07 PM

Charlie Wilkes wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:33:06 -0400, George Peatty wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:21:44 GMT, Charlie Wilkes
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST ended...
>>>which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll back manually.
>>>I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and the system time
>>>is an hour fast.
>>
>> IIRC, Standard time starts this weekend, not last .. Law was changed ..
>
> Right you are. Christ almighty... what is the point? To confuse people
> like me.
>

I'm just left wondering how you managed not to notice everyone around you
was working to a different time for three days!

--
David Aldred

unix · #5 10-31-2007, 10:12 PM

On 2007-10-31, Charlie Wilkes wrote:
> Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST ended...
> which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll back manually.
> I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and the system time
> is an hour fast.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here, what files I might need
> to edit, etc.

Are you talking about the US? Anyway the command to change system time
is date + the appropriate options run from a terminal.

Andrew

--
Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us
from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which
amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light
endures ...

unix · #6 11-01-2007, 12:09 AM

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:21:44 +0000, Charlie Wilkes wrote:

> Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST ended...
> which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll back manually.
> I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and the system time
> is an hour fast.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here, what files I might need
> to edit, etc.
>
> Thanks.

Did you try right-clicking on the time display and resetting there?

That's how I did it . . . .

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unix · #7 11-01-2007, 01:47 AM

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:07:10 +0000, David Aldred wrote:

> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:33:06 -0400, George Peatty wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:21:44 GMT, Charlie Wilkes
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ubuntu did not automatically roll back my system clock when DST
>>>>ended... which is no big deal, except it will not allow me to roll
>>>>back manually. I change the time, but whenever I reboot, it resets and
>>>>the system time is an hour fast.
>>>
>>> IIRC, Standard time starts this weekend, not last .. Law was changed
>>> ..
>>
>> Right you are. Christ almighty... what is the point? To confuse
>> people like me.
>>
>>
> I'm just left wondering how you managed not to notice everyone around
> you was working to a different time for three days!

I'm retired. I live alone in a remote place, and for the last few days
I've been busy putting up firewood, so I haven't had much contact with
anyone.

Charlie
>

unix · #8 11-01-2007, 07:40 AM

Charlie Wilkes wrote:
> I'm retired. I live alone in a remote place, and for the last few days
> I've been busy putting up firewood, so I haven't had much contact with
> anyone.

You're my new hero. Can I come over?

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As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

unix · #9 11-02-2007, 07:27 AM

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:40:43 GMT
johnny bobby bee wrote:

> Charlie Wilkes wrote:
> > I'm retired. I live alone in a remote place, and for the last few days
> > I've been busy putting up firewood, so I haven't had much contact with
> > anyone.
>
> You're my new hero. Can I come over?
>

He's Grizzly Adams :-)

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If you can do ballet then you can do anything
except reach high things because you're dinky.
Kiera Best - Aged 6.

unix · #10 11-02-2007, 07:30 AM

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:43:58 GMT
Charlie Wilkes wrote:

> > IIRC, Standard time starts this weekend, not last .. Law was changed ..
>
> Right you are. Christ almighty... what is the point? To confuse people
> like me.

A lot more than you apparently, I think Windows went back last weekend.

--
If you can do ballet then you can do anything
except reach high things because you're dinky.
Kiera Best - Aged 6.

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