Clock time zone

Thomas Tanghus thomas at tanghus.net
Thu Jun 13 23:37:33 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 12 June 2013 23:33 Phil wrote:
> On 12/06/13 14:11, Jim MacLeod wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:43:40 +0000
> > 
> > Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> >> Thank you for reading this.
> >> 
> >> Since a recent set of updates the time displayed is UTC time even though
> >> the KDE time zone settings are still set as they previously were.
> >> 
> >> /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime still show the correct time zone, yet
> >> "date" displays UTC time.
> >> 
> >> phil at Asus:~$ date
> >> Wed Jun 12 10:35:58 UTC 2013
> >> 
> >> As I said, this has only occurred during the past couple of days after a
> >> batch of updates were received. Is this a known problem?
> >> 
> >> --
> > 
> > If you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" and select your timezone it
> > should remain after a reboot.
> 
> Thanks Jim and TuxMario,
> 
> The above command already showed the correct time zone and after
> clicking "OK" the correct local time was displayed. However, once the
> system automatically checked the time via the time server the displayed
> time once again reverted back to UTC.
> 
> So, the time server is setting the system to UTC. I noticed this effect,
> before I posted my question, if I manually set the time. I initially
> though the time server was at fault, due to a public holiday here, but
> this is very unlikely.

The Kubuntu devs have made a post about this: 
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus




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