Talk:Release notes/13.2.0

Clock

After installing 13.2.0 on a XO-1.5, the clock was set with:

sudo date --set="2013-10-17 7:10"

All appears well except that Gnome displays UTC rather than local time. The offset from Greenwich shown by the location under the calendar is right. How can local time be specified? ... Peasthope 15:45, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

To set the time zone, start Terminal, paste this:

sudo yum install -y system-config-date

then in the Gnome menu select Applications -> Other -> System-Config-Date (Set Date & Time), select the Time Zone tab, select the city, click OK, see Gnome clock change, click Cancel.

Using date is slow and cumbersome. To set the time more easily, start Terminal, paste this:

sudo yum install -y ntpdate && sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org

Background: 13.2.0 is based on Fedora 18. Fedora 18 is usually configured at install time for timezone. The default timezone on 13.2.0 is UTC. This has no effect on Sugar, because only relative times are displayed. For Gnome, you can configure Fedora to use a different timezone. We have not included the graphical tool for doing so, but you can either install system-config-date or use shell actions with the same effect: copy the appropriate timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime and then check the time again. See also How to set time zone on Fedora /etc/localtime. Your other question was moved to Talk:Releases. --Quozl 01:58, 18 October 2013 (UTC)