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Post by joncrndl on Mar 25, 2012 15:58:38 GMT -5
The spinning clock has been going for it seems at least a minute. I am trying to set the time zone and time. This machine is running Linux Mint 11 from the hard disk. I am running KNOS 9 from USB 8GB stick. The time is +6 hours ahead. Looks like after I closed Time and Date settings and tried to restart it, it is crashing.  |
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Mar 26, 2012 3:16:48 GMT -5
The spinning clock has been going for it seems at least a minute. I am trying to set the time zone and time. This machine is running Linux Mint 11 from the hard disk. I am running KNOS 9 from USB 8GB stick. The time is +6 hours ahead. Looks like after I closed Time and Date settings and tried to restart it, it is crashing. Wow ... that's unusual. We designed the clock display to look right when run on a machine that normally runs Windows since BIOS in Windows shows "local time" irrespective of GMT which is the norm in the Unix world. So by doing it the way we do, the KNOS user sees their local time up there if they normally run Windows on the box. One less thing to make folks twitchy. Heh. But when the machine is running Unix (Linux, OS/X [yes, most Macs can run KNOS] Solaris or XBox) then the time displayed will be the normal Unix GMT and it will be wrong. Most folks from Linux land are used to bumps in the night and having to play with things, and YES ... there's a solution there too in KNOS! Here's what to do since you don't want to hit "system time" since we won't allow that (the cause of your headache and will mess up the time for Unix) ... click once on the time/date up on top and a window will pop down from it. In there you will see an "edit" button. Click that. A separate window will now open and on that you will see an "Add" button. Click that. Type in the nearest big city in your time zone manually and you will be offered a full city and state to click on ... do so. For you, Butte will do. Click on the fully filled out state name that will appear under it and then click "Close" below. You can also make changes to settings and the weather item as you wish while you're in there (doesn't do anything in Windows) and your choice will now appear under the daylight map in the original window. Now hover your mouse on the right side there and a button will magically appear that will let you set that as "home." Once you do that, KNOS will automatically set that up (but won't change the time quite yet) and then pop up a window to authorize the change. Click OK. If the box doesn't go away by itself (it sometimes "sticks") then manually click the close button for it up top. An icon will appear up on top next to the flash stopper icon. It will have a tooltop hint that says "drop all elevated privileges" ... click that and it will go away and you're done. Now your correct time should appear. This setting can be saved by KNOS in your "app settings" ... if you have KNOS installed to a hard disk, USB stick of 8GB or larger, or if you use a separate USB stick to store files on - go to Applications up top, then System tools, and then "Back up app settings" - KNOS will store your settings, plugins, add-ons and all and automatically bring them back into KNOS every time you boot so long as the drive that you save those settings to is connected when you boot up KNOS. If you're running solely from the DVD, then you'd have to redo that every time. Finally, on each reboot, you will have to go up to the time (which will always default to GMT) and click the time/date thingy up there and when the window appears, your location will have already been saved for you. Since time change requires permissions, you'll have to hover to the right of your location there to make the "accept" button appear. Click it, that "authorize" window will appear (and might stick as described above) and once the elelvated privilege to set time clears and you dismiss the icon up on top as I just described, KNOS will set the time correctly again. Yes ... even messing with the clock is a security issue to KNOS. But that'll do the trick for ya! |
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Post by joncrndl on Mar 27, 2012 16:33:16 GMT -5
Thank-you! Yes, that did do the trick. I am good at stumbling onto the ways not to go sometimes.  |
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