How can I get Debian Desktop Wheezy 1.1 to use network time?

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  1. rolly

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    Or even, how can I set the system time?
     
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    Re: How can I get Debian Desktop Wheezy 1.1 to use network t

    apt-get install ntpdate

    date -s "11/20/2014 12:48:00"

    hint :- date -s "month/day /year hours:minutes:seconds"

    you mat also may need to add or change :

    apt-get install locales
    update-locale
     
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    Thanks for your suggestions. ntpupdate & locales where already installed by default.
    The answer was to run tzselect to set my time zone.
     
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    Well while it was satisfying to set my time zone, the clock on the bottom of my screen stubbornly displays what I guess is UTC time (even after a reboot).
     
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    I had the same problem that the time was in UTC , but can`t remember how I fixed it , so it is fixable .
    I think I may have used system time in webmin , or had to change something manually.
     
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    Re: How can I get Debian Desktop Wheezy 1.1 to use network t

    webmin looks very interesting for a bunch of operations that seems to be missing from Wheezy.
    The question is, how to get it?
    Thanks for your help
     

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