Re: Controls in Time manager are all disabled

On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 09:58:49AM +0000, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> Hi, my Debian Trixie is installed at last; thank you all who helped. BTW,
> speech in GUI and console are working side by side like a charm.
> 
> I've chosen Mate, and now I need to adjust the time; It is wrong, probably
> because I chose local time instead of UTC during the installation, in order
> not to disturb the other installed OS. When I access the time manager found
> in Preferences -> hardware, all the controls such as the edit timezone
> button and the hour selector are disabled, except the close button. I've
> checked them using Orca's object navigating commands.
> 
> Any hint please?
> thanks,
> Cleverson
>

You can possibly use the GNU date command and hwclock.

In a terminal, as root / using sudo

date -u 060316252025 [adjust for what timezone offest you need].

would set the date to UTC for 3 June 1625 2025

hwclock --systohc

will set the hardware clock to the system time you've just set.

Hope this helps

Andy
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