Panel displays UTC time when everything is set to EDT

Elliemae · 08-08-2018, 08:56 PM

On this PC I am running Kubuntu 16.04 LTS.
The time is set to current Eastern Daylight Time
in the Northeast US. I have been all over the system
to ensure this. It was fine since installation
a while back. A few weeks ago, the panel clock
changed from the correct local time to UTC time.
I cannot figure out why or how to fix it.
Any ideas ?

TheEzekielProject · 08-09-2018, 12:16 AM

Try something like

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Elliemae · 08-09-2018, 08:28 PM

Thanks for the response but I may need a little more than that.
The response to that Terminal command is " must be run as root "

TheEzekielProject · 08-09-2018, 09:31 PM

Prepend it with sudo

Elliemae · 08-11-2018, 08:19 PM

I apologize but the machine in question is Kubuntu 14.4 not 16.4.
When I run the terminal command with sudo it does respond by showing the local time correctly
and the UTC time correctly in the terminal. Is there a command to select the local time
to be displayed in the panel ?

TheEzekielProject · 08-11-2018, 10:23 PM

Try right clicking on the widget and select 'Digital Clock Settings' -> 'Time Zones' and make a selection in 'Clock defaults to'. Or similar options. Haven't used kde in a while so exact phrasing may differ

ondoho · 08-12-2018, 02:24 AM

Elliemae, are you dual booting this machine with windows?

TheEzekielProject · 08-12-2018, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

Elliemae, are you dual booting this machine with windows?

Oooh. Good question.

If so, you're options are to set linux to local time or Windows to use UTC time.

Code:

timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

Or from Windows, open the registry editor, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation

Right-click the “TimeZoneInformation” key and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.

Name it RealTimeIsUniversal.

Double-click the RealTimeIsUniversal value you just created.
Set to 1.

Elliemae · 08-14-2018, 08:28 PM

No I am not dual booting. Its just Kubuntu 14.4 all by itself.