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user time problem

strange my user time as in clock is set to utc I want it to be est HOWEVER root is est so when I attempt to change the time as root it is correct and therfore no reason to change....how do I change JUST user time...using kde...also in the control center my default region is Thule even though I set it to US...root does not have these probs..user does not have permission to change time???? got to be something stupid but ???

Try locale.

See what it shows when logged on as non-root & root.

...also check your TZ environment variable. It may not ber set system wide.

Jim, please try editing your post if you have an addition to make...
Those two posts were less than two minutes apart, and not that
disjunct ...

Cheers,
Tink

I had the same problem this page helped me: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html

Quote:

The timezone under Linux is set by a symbolic link from /etc/localtime[1] to a file in the /usr/share/zoneinfo[2] directory that corresponds with what timezone you are in. For example, since I'm in South Australia, /etc/localtime is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/South. To set this link, type:

ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/your/zone /etc/localtime

Replace your/zone with something like Australia/NSW or Australia/Perth. Have a look in the directories under /usr/share/zoneinfo to see what timezones are available.

I guess /etc/localtime got corrupted or something...