After many hours, I finally got it installed and running. But When I went to recording programs, I realized I had set the clock 12 hours behind.

How do I adjust it with out reinstalling everything?

Thanks
jwittman

fyi: running r5alpha30.2

To make sure that the time is always correct, the following is what I have done in my KnoppMyth and it works fine.

1. I have defined my timezone in /etc/timezone to "US/Pacific". The list of available timezones can be found in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

2. I have a cronjob that syncs the system time with a NTP server. However, if the ntp-server is running, ntpdate would be unable to set the time because the NTP socket is in use. To create the cronjob, edit the root crontab (# crontab -e) and add the following line:

0 * * * * /etc/init.d/ntp-server stop &>/dev/null; /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.ucsd.edu &>/dev/null; /usr/sbin/ntpdate time.windows.com &>/dev/null

3. then you will need to restart all services to force them to pick the new time. You can also reboot.


I hope this helps.



Delyan

Thankyou, but I am even less than a novice, and so I am not ready to do that yet.

Is there a quick fix to my problem?

jawittman

Run ether tzconfig or tzsetup. If you've got webmin enbled (see the webmin howto on the wiki) that's an even easier way to do it.

also Knoppmyth-tz works.

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Xsecrets

Or if your using dvb in a country that has it:
edit your crontab (crontab -e) and type

* * * * * dvbdate -s

and save.

Oh the asterisks are the 'when' you want to run the command. Each asterisk refers to a time slot, an asterisk is a wildcard and needs to be there, for example:

3 * * * * would be every three seconds every minute, every day, every month, every year (range 1-59)

* 45 * * * would be every 45 mins (range 1 - 59 - I think from the hour too )

* * 2 * * would be every 2 hours (range 0 - 23)

* * * 3 * would be every tuesday (range 1 -7)

and * * * * 1 would be every january (range 1-12 I think... once a year which isn't particularly useful for this purpose)

Combination commands work

eg: * * 2/4/8/23 * * dvbdate -s would run on those hours everyday

also, crontabs can be run to do anything at a set time.

thinking about it I put the full path for my dvbdate -s command, but I don't think it's necessary.
And you don't need to reboot or anyhitng once you exit nano.