Here is the latest update from the Kubuntu forum, along with test results and a patch / solution. Posting it here for the bump it needs :) <a href="http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995-Wrong-time-zone-on-your-clock-Help-Kubuntu-devs-create-a-fix&p=330437&viewfull=1#post330437">http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995-Wrong-time-zone-on-your-clock-Help-Kubuntu-devs-create-a-fix&p=330437&viewfull=1#post330437</a> <div> - James Cain </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Steve Riley <<a href="mailto:steve@rileyz.net" target="_blank">steve@rileyz.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 2013-06-14 00:10:20 Harald Sitter <<a href="mailto:sitter.harald@gmail.com">sitter.harald@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Steve Riley <<a href="mailto:steve@rileyz.net">steve@rileyz.net</a>> wrote: > > > On 2013-06-13 15:27:22 James Cain <<a href="mailto:james.cain.25@gmail.com">james.cain.25@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Volkan Gezer <<a href="mailto:volkangezer@gmail.com">volkangezer@gmail.com</a> > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/6/13 Harald Sitter <<a href="mailto:sitter.harald@gmail.com">sitter.harald@gmail.com</a>>: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Steve Riley <<a href="mailto:steve@rileyz.net">steve@rileyz.net</a>> > > wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> On 2013-06-05 00:55:30 Harald Sitter <<a href="mailto:apachelogger@ubuntu.com">apachelogger@ubuntu.com</a>> > > 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? > > > > > > > > <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1184729" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1184729</a> > > > > > > > > > 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: > > > <a href="http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62171#post324366" target="_blank">http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62171#post324366</a>. 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: <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318709" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318709</a>. > > > > > > 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@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@t520:~$ readlink /etc/localtime > > steve@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? > > > that is the expected behavior on a proper system > > if someone feels like expanding the line to handle that be my guest, > otherwise just tell peple to ctrl+c if nothing happens ;) > > HS </div></div>Okie dokie. New forum thread here: <a href="http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995" target="_blank">http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995</a> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> ...Steve -- kubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>