Invalid date problem
Hi, There is a problem with changing the date or time in YAST where it always reports an invalid date. The CLI date program works fine so it looks like the problem lies somewhere in YAST/KDE/QT. regards Ian
There is a problem with changing the date or time in YAST where it always reports an invalid date. The CLI date program works fine so it looks like the problem lies somewhere in YAST/KDE/QT.
You don't state whether the time is shown correct, just date displayed wrong, and how much of difference there is :-) So, try right clicking on the clock in the KDE taskbar, select 'Show timezone' from the menu, then select your time zone from those listed. Or, click 'Configure Timezone' and chose appropriately. Dunno why, but even when set up through YaST2, KDE sometimes doesn't play nice, which is why the system time is set correct, but KDE doesn't display it right. Get back in touch if that doesn't work, and let provide more info about the date differences (as well as time reported in the BIOS...) Iain
Iain Foulds wrote:
There is a problem with changing the date or time in YAST where it always reports an invalid date. The CLI date program works fine so it looks like the problem lies somewhere in YAST/KDE/QT.
You don't state whether the time is shown correct, just date displayed wrong, and how much of difference there is :-)
So, try right clicking on the clock in the KDE taskbar, select 'Show timezone' from the menu, then select your time zone from those listed. Or, click 'Configure Timezone' and chose appropriately. Dunno why, but even when set up through YaST2, KDE sometimes doesn't play nice, which is why the system time is set correct, but KDE doesn't display it right.
Get back in touch if that doesn't work, and let provide more info about the date differences (as well as time reported in the BIOS...)
Iain
I have exactly the same problem on my wife's computer (ASUS P2BF with Intel PentiumIII 450MHz,SuSE 8.2) I am completely unable to set the time using YaST. Whenever I try to set the time, YaST complains that the date is invalid even though 1) I did not change the date and 2) the date displayed is entirely correct. The BIOS contains the correct time (with no time zone info). I can use the CLI to set the time via the date command. KDE's time is an hour ahead of the time displayed by the date command. I've resorted to setting the time one hour behind so that KDE has the correct time. I've also set the /etc/adjtime file to zeroes everywhere. I've tried UTC and GMT but the problem persists. I've given up.
The time was correct and the date was correct. I was just trying advancing the time by a few minutes to test a program out that uses the time. The date and time shown were correct and in the correct format Regards Ian On Mon 18 August 2003 11:17, Iain Foulds wrote:
There is a problem with changing the date or time in YAST where it always reports an invalid date. The CLI date program works fine so it looks like the problem lies somewhere in YAST/KDE/QT.
You don't state whether the time is shown correct, just date displayed wrong, and how much of difference there is :-)
So, try right clicking on the clock in the KDE taskbar, select 'Show timezone' from the menu, then select your time zone from those listed. Or, click 'Configure Timezone' and chose appropriately. Dunno why, but even when set up through YaST2, KDE sometimes doesn't play nice, which is why the system time is set correct, but KDE doesn't display it right.
Get back in touch if that doesn't work, and let provide more info about the date differences (as well as time reported in the BIOS...)
Iain
Hi Try to set the month instead of say "08" to "8". It work for me. Zsolt ianseeks wrote:
The time was correct and the date was correct. I was just trying advancing the time by a few minutes to test a program out that uses the time. The date and time shown were correct and in the correct format
Regards
Ian
On Mon 18 August 2003 11:17, Iain Foulds wrote:
There is a problem with changing the date or time in YAST where it always reports an invalid date. The CLI date program works fine so it looks like the problem lies somewhere in YAST/KDE/QT.
You don't state whether the time is shown correct, just date displayed wrong, and how much of difference there is :-)
So, try right clicking on the clock in the KDE taskbar, select 'Show timezone' from the menu, then select your time zone from those listed. Or, click 'Configure Timezone' and chose appropriately. Dunno why, but even when set up through YaST2, KDE sometimes doesn't play nice, which is why the system time is set correct, but KDE doesn't display it right.
Get back in touch if that doesn't work, and let provide more info about the date differences (as well as time reported in the BIOS...)
Iain
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