Re: KDE - time displaying wrong
On Thursday 24 April 2003 05:03 am, Tom wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Yesterday I installed KDE 3 (which was finally fully available in
> Sid), and everything worked great.
>
> Today, everything is still working great, except for the clock. At
> this moment, it displays 4:56, but I live in Western Europe, so that
> should be 10:56 :-) When I right-click and choose to adjust date &
> time, it states that the current time zone is EDT. Right underneath,
> it offers me the possibility to change that, by choosing my area.
>
> When I do so, the time zone correctly switches to CEST, and the
> clock displays the correct time. After a couple of seconds, however,
> it switches back to another time zone. Not necessarily EDT, it's
> more of a random switch (right now, it chooses MAWT; 14:56).
>
> Does anyone else experience this weird behavior? Is there something
> I'm doing wrong? Enlightenment and Fluxbox didn't ever do such
> things, so it really must be a KDE problem. Google, however, just
> yielded endless pages about timezones, not about this kind of
> problem...
>
> Hoping for someone to be able to provide a solution,
> Tom
>
The "Show Timezone" option is just that - it is a feature to allow you to
temporarily? display the time in some other time zone. To change what KDE
thinks is your time zone (from EDT to CEST), you need to go to "Adjust Date &
Time..." Here you have the option to change your time zone.
Josh
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