Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Time display errors >Coming from a Windows intensive background I mainly use X and I have >noticed that since the upgrade, my system time seems to increment > itself by 2 hours each time I reboot the machine, if I don't > physically change it each time.
Now that's odd. So would you for instance reboot today, then it would be 2 hours ahead, reboot the next day, find it 4 hours ahead - or does it just stay ahead of the regular time zone? I'll hazard a guess you're running KDE and you're seeing the same behavior of KDE's clock display I am, but first verify your machine is showing correct time by typing 'date' in a konsole. That will display what time Linux thinks it is and that is derived from the BIOS time (which should be set to UTC, unless you're on a dual boot system) and a time zone offset settable by Mandrake Control Center or by editing the timezone files directly. >I have set the local time zone in the clock GUI to be >Africa/Johannesburg and hence my time zone to SAST but my time still >increments. I thought it might be that my hardware clock was said to There may be two sets of timezone information being displayed - as others have suggested. My KDE clock right now is +7 hours fast of PST, and I've seen variations of that - usually it shows up as EST. I don't reboot often enough, but it could advance the zones as you describe - I haven't been able to notice. If I open Mandrake Control Center, choose System/date and time, my clock in MCC shows the correct time zone. I reset the KDE clock with right mouse click and Show date and time - and select America/Los Angeles, and it thinks I'm on the East Coast somewhere (it's 11:44, presumably PM, according to the KDE clock, but 8:44 pm now in California). Too bad I don't run this thing at work, I could convince my boss it's time to go home :). As far as I can tell, KDE's information for time zones differs from what Mandrake shows -- in other words, "America/Los Angeles" from KDE's splash screen is different from "America/Los Angeles" in MCC. But that doesn't really make sense. What I have noticed is that when I start KDE, the time zone will be correct for some period of time -- and then something - running some application, or just waiting around -- invariably, the clock gets bumped. And it's only affecting the KDE clock. Anything else (even KDE applications that display time in a status message, for instance, Kmail) shows the correct time zone. Also take note that KDE's clock can show a time zone independently of what the system shows. >UTC=false >ARC=false >ZONE=America/New_York > >Where the America/New_York came from is anybody's guess. I tried AFAIK it's the default time zone setting. > editing the file and putting Africa/Johannesburg as the Zone but I > did not have any luck with the line as below: OK but when you edit the file I think you need to rerun init. Many configuration files are like that - the changes aren't immediately acted upon. Assuming you reran init (e.g., by rebooting) does the Unix (Linux) time zone show as correct? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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