Re: Controls in Time manager are all disabled
In the CLI, you can enter
sudo dpkg --configure tzdata
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Controls in Time manager are all disabled
On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 09:58:49AM +0000, Cleverson Casarin Uliana wrote:
> Hi, my Debian Trixie is installed at last; thank you all who helped. BTW,
> speech in GUI and console are working side by side like a charm.
>
> I've chosen Mate, and now I need to adjust the time; It is wrong, probably
> because I chose local time instead of UTC during the installation, in
> order
> not to disturb the other installed OS. When I access the time manager
> found
> in Preferences -> hardware, all the controls such as the edit timezone
> button and the hour selector are disabled, except the close button. I've
> checked them using Orca's object navigating commands.
>
> Any hint please?
> thanks,
> Cleverson
>
You can possibly use the GNU date command and hwclock.
In a terminal, as root / using sudo
date -u 060316252025 [adjust for what timezone offest you need].
would set the date to UTC for 3 June 1625 2025
hwclock --systohc
will set the hardware clock to the system time you've just set.
Hope this helps
Andy
(amacater@debian.org)
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