Setting Time and Date

[soyrunner]

I had to configure manually on ubports.
And not by select the good time zone in the UI

But
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
did it

Hmm that didn't work either. I get a box on the screen that talks about subsequent boxes narrowing down my geographic location, but clicking on Ok does nothing.

I got time and date working by ssh and setting the locale and hwclock.  The GUI time date setting was just too touchy.  Also, when the manual set was correct, it just wouldn't set.  When I got the locale and hwclock set after ssh'ing in, I went back to the GUI, checked automatic setting, then rebooted and the correct time was there.  To get root priv. I had to de-set screen lock, then I could sudo su on the ssh session then I could set a root password.  Then ssh in I'd sudo su, get to enter the root password, then have root privileges.  I may have dpkg-reconfigured unity8 as well, not sure.  But early on the hwclock --show would have both the local time and UTC time correct but booting would show the GUI time off by 5 hours.