Unable to set motherboard BIOS to UTC time, any idea how to do that?

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Unable to set motherboard BIOS to UTC time, any idea how to do that?

03 October 2023, 22:00:18

My bios is permanently in local time because I only have lenovo laptop bios (it's for school) and not having the right time is driving me crazy. I tried using ntpd but it doesn't really do anything and I can't find the package for ntpdate. I'm in the CST time zone.

Re: Unable to set motherboard BIOS to UTC time, any idea how to do that?

Reply #1 – 04 October 2023, 00:16:02

I don't think this is a issue with init system, but a time issue instead. If you're dual-booting with Windows, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Microsoft_Windows

Re: Unable to set motherboard BIOS to UTC time, any idea how to do that?

Reply #2 – 04 October 2023, 11:16:27

what did hwclock --systohc say?