From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 21:03:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6927F16A4EB for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 21:03:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DF343D31 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 21:03:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A840AC8DDC9 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 17:03:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: 1pDY1dLf2DoXtI29NSfqHrgerMDFcDcd+vOM+wZF5tZ8 1115672606 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-65-242.access.as9105.com [80.41.65.242]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD9E570363 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 17:03:25 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 22:02:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505071316.58645.cworthy@myrealbox.com> <200505071810.45469.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20050507223455.GA1896@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050507223455.GA1896@Alex.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505092202.55016.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Issue with Timezone in KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:03:29 -0000 On Saturday 07 May 2005 23:34, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:10:45PM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 07 May 2005 14:16, Colin Worthy wrote: > > > I am having an odd issue with setting the correct timezone in KDE. I > > > have set the correct timezone from the command line and it seems to > > > stay for a while, but eventually is reverting to UTC time. I should be > > > in Central Daylight time (Americas/Chicago). If I try to set the > > > correct timezone from within KDE it simply ignores my change and stays > > > set on UTC time. > > > > > > I am using NTP to try to keep the time on my machine correct. This > > > problem has only recently come up. I am not sure when exactly, but it > > > used to always have the correct time. > > > ... > > > > Try running sysinstall as root, and go though the timezone setup under > > configure. > > I have this to and have no solution. > > The problem is _not_ that the time of the OS is wrong, but that KDE > suddenly deside it should show the time as if you where in lets say > moscow. I had exactly what Colin Worthy described, and going through sysinstall fixed it. I'm not entirely sure what the underlying problem was, possibly I hadn't configured the OS to use a localtime RTC, but that doesn't really explain why KDE behaved as it did.