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Date:      Mon, 9 May 2005 22:02:54 +0100
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Issue with Timezone in KDE
Message-ID:  <200505092202.55016.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050507223455.GA1896@Alex.lan>
References:  <200505071316.58645.cworthy@myrealbox.com> <200505071810.45469.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20050507223455.GA1896@Alex.lan>

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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.    



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