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Questions tagged [time]

Questions relating to time and timezones.

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How to change time-zone settings from the command line

I have a virtual machine that is set to PST that a couple of colleagues have in different time-zones. If I wanted to change the time-zone to EST and GMT, what do I need to do?
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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?
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How can I display the current time & date setting?

How can I display the current time configuration, like the time zone, in Ubuntu?
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How do I change my timezone to UTC/GMT?

Currently when I execute the date command from bash I get the following displayed Thu May 17 12:21:00 IST 2012 Below is my timezone config based on executing dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'Europe/Dublin' Local time is now:…
dmckenna
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How to show seconds on the clock in GNOME 3?

Is it possible to show the seconds on the clock in GNOME 3?
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Clock shows wrong time after switching from Ubuntu to Windows 10

I have dual booted Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 in UEFI mode (secure boot off). My time in BIOS is correct. When I boot into Ubuntu and then boot into Windows 10, it shows the wrong time. I have to correct it manually or by the internet in Windows…
Brij Raj Kishore
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ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization found

My clock is off, so I would like to synchronize it using ntpdate. I tried several different NTP servers, but for some reason I always get the following error message: $ sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com 4 Mar 12:27:35 ntpdate[1258]: no server suitable for…
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How do you set the timezone for crontab?

I have set up ACPI wakeup so my laptop wakes up at a certain time each morning. The timezone for this is UTC. I want to set up my crontabs also using UTC so they fit with the wakeup alarm. How do you do it? I've tried editing /etc/default/cron to…
alj
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How can I change the date and time on Ubuntu?

When I go to change the date and time it doesn't work. I try to unlock but it just won't unlock. If there is any way to make it work please help. I know it isn't very descriptive but I really would appreciate some answers.
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Time is not displaying in the Top Bar

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 with dual boot along side Windows 8. The top panel or bar doesn't display the time. When I open the Clock menu, all the settings over there are grayed out Settings > Time and date > Clock I tried other methods (like dconf)…
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How to fix wrong system time and date?

I just ran a clean install of 12.10 on my sys76 laptop. Time and date reads: 19:36 31 december 1969, even though it is: 13:29 07 november 2012. I have it set for my location and it won't change manually, even tried in the command line with tz. I…
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How do I show date next to time in the panel with gnome-shell?

I would like to show the date in the bar up the top there (next to the time). I can not see any obvious way to enable this.
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How to change ubuntu's server date and time via command line?

The Ubuntu server's current date and time is different from the time zone date and time. I have tried using: sudo date "30 Sep 2015 4:43:42" to change it but it did not change the date and time, just printed on terminal the date and time I changed,…
Priska Aprilia
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Clocks for multiple timezones in GNOME Shell

I looked everywhere but I couldn't find a way to display multiple clocks in GNOME 3. In classic GNOME and Unity, it is possible. Also, for some strange reason, additional timezones cannot be added to the clock using the time-date applet in classic…
Ayan Kar
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Enable System clock synchronization

'timedatectl' is giving following output - Local time: Wed 2018-06-13 18:08:51 IST Universal time: Wed 2018-06-13 12:38:51 UTC RTC time: Wed 2018-06-13 12:38:51 …
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