Timezone/time is not correct in 3.6

[urbo]

Hello,
I just did a fresh install of Sparky 3.6 Xfce and noticed my clock is off by 5 hours. I doubled checked to see if my timezone was right and it is. America/ New York. But it is not showing the correct time. Its 5 hours fast. Does anyone know how to fix this ? I have never experienced this problem before.

[pavroo]

I have similar problem, even I have pure Debian testing installed.
So I set the time manually on my machine.
Did you try to install ntpdata/ntp package?
Any change after rebooting?

[urbo]

Thank you for the reply, I'm at work right now but will try tonight when I get home and report back. Thank you.

[urbo]

Well thanks for trying to help me. I got home from work and put my hard drive back in my desktop (hot swap bays) and it wouldn't even boot up. Something with grub I imagine. Going to have to reinstall. Not going to do it tonight though.

[pavroo]

You are the second person reporting a problem after upgrading.
If you use APTus to upgrade the system I highly recommend to use Fix Broken-> Fix Broken Packages by APT after.
In many cases the upgrading process stops itself if find a problem and it is not visible in the terminal, because it shuts down the window itself.

Anyway I recommend to use System Upgrade (sparky-aptus-upgrade) tool to upgrade the system.
I implemented 3 commands and a loop to avoid problems like that.
The app checks package list, makes upgrade, fix then checks again and makes upgrade and fix if needed (and again if needed).