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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