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?
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