Reproducible problem in Kubuntu

[Steve Riley]

On 2013-06-13 15:27:22 James Cain <james.cain.25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Volkan Gezer <volkangezer at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > 2013/6/13 Harald Sitter <sitter.harald at gmail.com>:
> > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Steve Riley <steve at rileyz.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 2013-06-05 00:55:30 Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > without a system that has broken timezones after an uprade but did not
> > >> > get
> > >> > fixed yet it is nigh impossible to find out whether the KCM/zic are at
> > >> > fault or something else is going terribly wrong.
> > >>
> > >> What would you need to see? I can try to gather something next time
> > >> someone on the forum reports the problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ah, sorry, forgot to reply -.-
> > >
> > > this command should generate output with all relevant information
> > >
> > > ls -l /etc/timezone; cat /etc/timezone; echo""; echo ""; ls -l
> > /etc/adjtime;
> > > cat /etc/adjtime; echo ""; ls -l /etc/localtime; cat `readlink
> > > /etc/localtime`
> > >
> >
> > Can this bug also be relevant to this problem?
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1184729
> >
> > > HS
>
> 
> Somehow we need to connect the users having the issue with the devs to work
> together to solve the problem. Maybe we could all pick up the discussion
> over at the relevant forum post that Steve Riley mentioned earlier:
> http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62171#post324366. Unless it IS
> an upstream issue then I guess it needs to be dealt with there. Although
> the bug was reported on April, nothing appears to have happened with it to
> date: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318709.
> 
> However I would say from a user's perspective it's a pretty annoying bug.
> 
> - James


I had started to write a forum post requesting people to provide the information in Harald's command. However, there appears to be a problem. /etc/localtime isn't a link on my machine, it's a normal file:

steve at t520:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 Apr 26 15:52 /etc/localtime

Because it's a normal file, readlink returns nothing:

steve at t520:~$ readlink /etc/localtime
steve at t520:~$

And cat `readlink localtime` just causes the shell to wait until I press Ctrl+C.

The above is from my 13.04 laptop. I checked my Ubuntu 12.04 server, same situation. However, on my Arch build, /etc/localtime is, in fact, a symlink to a zoneinfo file.

So before I post something to the forum, is there an alternate suggestion for what to do with /etc/localtime?

...Steve