Setting Hardware Time in Batocera/Linux Mint

Garisaan

Hello everyone.

I have a dual-boot setup on my Gigabyte Brix where I can choose to boot into Linux Mint or Batocera. Both are the latest versions as of writing this (Tara 19 and 5.19 rc1, respectively). What's happening is my BIOS clock constantly resets to UTC; I live in the Eastern US.

Here's what I tried so far. In Linux Mint, which is set to my local time, I used the hwclock command to set the system clock as my local time, which is normally successful. However, when I switch to Batocera, it automatically reverts back to UTC time.

I'd like to have my BIOS clock set as my local time no matter which Linux distro I happen to pick. Any insight on how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Chernenko

Hey,bro.
This question me happen too.
I'm use ln -sf or cp or nano for /etc/localtime,but all is nothing happen.
so we know this files just a RAM image files.(if power off,file is missing,after next start read from image)
change file is impossible,but......have any can change files we can try it,right?
So,I'm use half day time for find and try,at last,I'm find it.
have a files,at /recalbox/share/system call the "recalbox.conf",you can use putty and nano it.
find "# ------------ F - Language and keyboard ------------ #",at end have a character string:
";system.timezone=Europe/Paris"
bingo,we find it.what's mean?when system is boot,print this for make /etc/localtime.If change it,like:
"system.timezone=Europe/Moscow"
at next boot,time is Russian/Moscow.If they are "Asia/Tokyo",at next boot time is Japan/Tokyo.
So,you just at /usr/share/zoneinfo/ find where you are,and change string,at next boot time is on your set.
My English is not good,don't mind,and enjoy yourself.