i was quite surprised as well, but there really seems to exist a folder named "US" in the zoneinfo directory in gentoo.<div><br></div><div>Could this problem have anything to do with daylight savings? since cancun and chicago are both GMT-6 but only chicago has +1hour dalight saving time</div>
<div><br></div><div>so if you choose US/Central you get the right timezone but no daylight changes. and since Cancun is a city where there seems to be no daylight changes at all (correct me if i'm wrong), KDE chooses Cancun automatically</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/28 David Jarvie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djarvie@kde.org">djarvie@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, October 28, 2009 3:28 am, tsuraan wrote:<br>
> Ok, so it looks like the probem was a conflict between my<br>
> /etc/localtime and KDE4's idea of what valid timezones are. I noticed<br>
> that system preferences doesn't list any of the US/* items that are in<br>
> the zoneinfo, while my actual /etc/localtime is linked to<br>
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central. I guess that the discrepancy between<br>
> KDE's idea of valid timezones and my current time zone was breaking<br>
> things, so it decided to put me in Cancun. I think there's probably a<br>
> more graceful way to handle that case, but setting my /etc/localtime<br>
> to America/Chicago instead of US/Central let KDE remember my timezone,<br>
> which is good enough for me (although it is a few hundred miles off<br>
> :).<br>
<br>
</div>In the standard time zone database on Linux, all time zones are named in<br>
the form continent/city. So there are no US/... time zones - only<br>
America/... ones. America/Chicago happens to be the name which is used in<br>
the database for US central time, so that's the correct zone to choose<br>
whether you live in Chicago or in Arkansas, Mississippi, etc.<br>
<br>
When /etc/localtime pointed to US/Central, it wouldn't point to any valid<br>
time zone data - it's strange that the system allowed the invalid link to<br>
US/Central to be set up in the first place. Why it settled on Cancun, I<br>
don't know, but it's not surprising that it had some unwanted effects.<br>
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