How to set time

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Briefly describe your issue below:
I am running 3.11 64 bit and the time shown is 5 hours early. I have checked the location setting and it is set right. I am in the est which is what it says but the time is not right. How do I fix it?
Thanks

What version of Parrot are you running? (include version, edition, and architecture)

What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)

Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)

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try to fix your time in the system time settings

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Give me a break I did that first and it didn’t work. I had to go into my bios and add 5 hours to the time to fix it artificially. There is obviously a problem with this os

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why this os and not debian? the system is based on it and NOTHING related to the time settings was modified by us

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I still cannot change the time wheter I do it through control panel or sudo date --set in the terminal

EDIT: worked in Kali

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Try this:

sudo rm -f /etc/localtime
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/“your country”/“your city” /etc/localtime

For example: Mine would be sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime

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This worked well for me

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hello why don’t you set the time manually in the time settings ?

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Go to system, then select administration and then time and date
System > Administration > Time and Date

Then you have to unlock it by entering your credentials.

  1. Select appropriate time zone
  2. Select Keep synced with internet servers in the configuration dropdown

If you see some error that ntp is not installed then open terminal and run the following commands

apt-get update
apt-get install ntp

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

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thank you bro