Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions

[Arwen]

Firstly would just like to say a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to bringing the Pinebook Pro to life, I'm thoroughly enjoying using it so far and in most ways it's exceeded my expectations.
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Yes, I too am quite happy with my Pinebook Pro.

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Most of my issues have arisen more from my lack of knowledge and one thing I've found particularly annoying is date/time continually resets to the default, I've tried setting it manually in terminal but to no avail.

Do you have a time zone issue?
What does this show you?

Code:

> ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec  7 17:43 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern

I found setting the time zone in the user's GUI did not stick.
But, changing that link from "Etc/UTC" to "US/Eastern" worked for me.

Setting the actual clock / calendar chip, sorry I can't help, (yet).