Time in Kubuntu

[Stephen Morris]

On 19/10/16 07:18, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Teimuraz Abashidze wrote:
>>> As a workaround you could revert the update of the tzdata package or
>>> you could set a different time zone which has the same offset from
>>> UTC as your time zone (until a future update corrects the fault).
>> To Nils Kassube:
>>
>> Man, you're genios! ;-)
> That's not my idea - some time ago I read it on one of the mailing lists
> I'm subscribed to (but I don't remember who was the genius who had
> written about it).
>
>> I've changed my timezone to Tehran (it's the
>> same +4) and now it shows correct time everywhere!
>>
>> It's interesting, timezone files for Ukraine and Georgia ONLY where
>> damaged?
> Sorry, I mixed up Kiev and Minsk. Igor is in the Belarus/Minsk time zone
> which is displayed wrong, while for the Kiev time zone it is OK. But I
> don't know if those are the only time zones which are currently broken.
>
>
> Nils
In another thread where I was querying why a fresh clean install on 
empty partitions always wanted to unsuccessfully use SDDM as the display 
manager irrespective of what the default display manager was (the only 
way to stop this behavior was to uninstall SDDM), I indicated that I had 
a similar problem to this but slightly different.
I am in Australia and we are 10 hours ahead of GMT and like the other 
people in this thread I am using local time. For the mentioned thread I 
needed to show some Systemctl output, and I queried in that thread why 
the timestamp on the output was actually 10 hours ahead of Local time, 
so it looked to me like the system thought the hardware clock was set to 
GMT time so it adjusted it to local time, but from what I remember the 
system tray time displayed correctly. I had 16.04 LTS.
I can't check these again now as I have attempted to upgrade to 16.10 
via the method I understood to be the Ubuntu preferred upgrade method 
(do-release-upgrade, as the method documented in the instructions linked 
to by the announcement thread didn't work for me) and the upgrade has 
completely destroyed my system.

regards,
Steve