Date-time changing tool on Gnome

mshmsh · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject: Date-time changing tool on Gnome

Looking for a GUI tool to change date and time on Gnome. Clicking on Adjust Time Context Menu at the date in the top right corner, gives:

Failed to locate a program for configuring the date and time. Perhaps none is installed?

What's a good tool to emerge for this?

Thanks,
Shyam

rowi · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

Try to merge gnome-extra/gnome-system-tools, they work on my system. Since I run gnome-current from breakmygentoo.net I'm not sure if they'll work with Gnome 2.4 but it's worth a try

xianx · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject:

best way to sync up your date/time, is to sync to the Atomic Clock at NIST.

second_exodous · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

rdate -s time.nist.gov doesn't work for me, rdate command wasn't found. Is there something that needs to be emerged first?

Thanx,
Stan

gowen · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 3

emerge net-misc/rdate

pcassidy · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

Think this thread got sidelined from the original question.

The poster was looking for a way to right click on the clock on the gnome desktop select
adjust date and time and set the time in this way.

The first answer suggested emerging gnome-extra/gnome-system-tools , but I can't see that
in portage.

Anybody have this working on the desktop?

nasteratu · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 13 Location: CSH@RIT

This has never worked for me, the best solution I came up with is set to local time and adjust the bios clock.

I am sorry I could not be of more help.
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joem · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject:

you can get the gnome-system-tools ebuild from breakmygentoo

second_exodous · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:11 am Post subject:

I used rdate as mentioned above and I really like it. You could always do date MMDDhhmmCCYY but that again isn't the gui.

This seems like something that only needs to be fixed once, so one could use the term, even if one is a newbie. Are you changing time zones often, like have a job that allows you to travel?

Thanx,
Stan

polin8 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:00 am Post subject:

In gnome 2.5 with gnome-system tools instaled right clicking on the clock applet lets you configure ntpd or set the time manually.

Might work in gnome 2.4 as well, but I don't recall.
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dreas · Guru Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

The problem is that gnome-system-tools are not officially available it seems. At least these are not available in portage, as has been mentioned before.