Jeremy <jeremy.m....@gmail.com> writes: > And voila! You guys saved me about two days of chasing my tail. Creating > the symbolic link for /etc/localtime to the Chicago time zone in > /use/share/zoneinfo fixed the issue. Now the time and date are properly > displayed on the panel and in the sddm greeter. > > Thanks for your help, > Jeremy Cox > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 09:05 Adriaan de Groot <gr...@kde.org> wrote: > >> On Monday, 22 June 2020 12:14:51 CEST Jeremy wrote: >> > My /etc/localtime file is a binary file. It isn't a symbolic link to the >> > timezone file. >> >> That's actually a really important bit, there: try moving it aside for a >> moment, making it a symlink, and then giving it a try. I thought I had >> re-done >> the patches handling that case for FreeBSD, and landed them in 5.15. >> >> [ade]
The same issue appeared for me after updating to 5.15, and the /etc/localtime symlink workaround fixes it. Adriaan, it would be great if those patches could be re-applied! Bengt