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<h1>The time seems to be wrong - how can I fix it?</h1>
<p>If, when you click <strong>Go to now</strong> <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> scrolls to a time which is not now, you know <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> is wrong about the time.
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<div class='vspace'></div><div class='indent'><em>Note: if <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> goes to the right time when you click <strong>Go to now</strong>, but your TV programmes are listed as being at the wrong time, that is a slightly different problem. You can probably fix it by <a class='wikilink' href='SettingTheTZEnvironmentVariable.html'>Setting The TZ Environment Variable</a>.</em>
</div><p class='vspace'>If <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> is wrong about the time, it is probably because it doesn't know what time zone you are in.
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<p class='vspace'>First you will need to find out the name of your time zone. This site might help: <a class='urllink' href='http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/findzone/findzone.tzc' rel='nofollow'>http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/findzone/findzone.tzc</a>. Examples are "Europe/London", "US/Pacific", "Africa/Algiers".
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<p class='vspace'>How you tell <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> your time zone depends on what operating system you are using:
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<div class='vspace'></div><h3>Linux, <span class='wikiword'>FreeBSD</span>, etc.</h3>
<p>Create a file in your home directory called ".freeguiderc", and make it look like this:
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<p class='vspace'><code class='escaped'>FREEGUIDE_OPTS="-Duser.timezone=Europe/Paris"</code>
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<div class='vspace'></div><div class='indent'><em>(Except replace "Europe/Paris" with your time zone name.)</em>
</div><p class='vspace'>When you've made this change, <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> should know the correct time. If not, please <a class='wikilink' href='../Main/ContactUs.html'>Contact Us</a> and we'll try and work out why not.
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<div class='vspace'></div><h3>Windows</h3>
<ul><li>Find the shortcut (button) you use to launch <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> (e.g. on your Start Menu under Programs, on your Quick Launch bar near the Start button, or on your desktop.
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</div><div class='vspace'></div><ul><li>Find the command that is used to launch <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span>. It will probably look something like this:
</li></ul><div class='indent'><code class='escaped'>C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe -jar "C:\Program Files\FreeGuide\startup.jar" --doc_directory="C:\Program Files\FreeGuide\doc" --install_directory="C:\Program Files\FreeGuide"</code>
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</div><div class='vspace'></div><ul><li>Change the command, to add something after the "javaw.exe" part. What you need to add is:
</li></ul><div class='vspace'></div><div class='indent'><code class='escaped'>-Duser.timezone=Europe/Paris</code>
<div class='vspace'></div><div class='indent'><em>(Except replace "Europe/Paris" with your time zone name.)</em>
</div></div><div class='vspace'></div><ul><li>So the example above would now look like:
</li></ul><div class='indent'><code class='escaped'>C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe -Duser.timezone=Europe/Paris -jar "C:\Program Files\FreeGuide\startup.jar" --doc_directory="C:\Program Files\FreeGuide\doc" --install_directory="C:\Program Files\FreeGuide"</code>
</div><p class='vspace'>When you've made this change, <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> should know the correct time. If not, please <a class='wikilink' href='../Main/ContactUs.html'>Contact Us</a> and we'll try and work out why not.
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