Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote:
> >
> >>Greetings Debianistas
> >>
> >>My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing
> >>Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always
> >>one hour ahead of real time.
> >>I have checked the BIOS clock which is set to the regular time and I
> >>don't think that it is set to UTC. Also, the time-zone should read
> >>Europe/London. I have tried numerous ways of altering this, even killing
> >>off gdm so that I can login as root to fix it in Gnome. Then, reboot,
> >>and it's back to being 1 hour ahead again.
> >>
> >>What can I do to fix this, as it is a real PITA to keep having to fix it
> >>for her, and let's face it, it shouldn't be necessary to do so.
> >>
> >>
> >Is the timezone set in her environment? What does /etc/localtime link
> >to?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >-Roberto
> >
> >
> Hi Roberto
>
> How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file.
> There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages.
>
> Thanks
>
> A
>
> --
>
> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry
> about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
>
As root
tzconfig
Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones)
hwclock --systohc
Set the BIOS clock to UTC
In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at
Europe/London
Hope this helps,
Andy
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