[kde-doc-english] Summer Time Adjustments To Clock

[rwb]

Hello, Yuri, and thank-you for the prompt reply.

The shortcut is useful. I have not used KDE for a while, because I had been using a really old computer, with Xfce, and it's moved on appreciably over the past few years. I had already gone to the 'Date and Time' window by the 'old' method of right-clicking on the clock and choosing 'Adjust Date and Time...', to setup the clock via europe.pool.ntp.org [after trying pool.ntp.org], and choosing my Time Zone as 'London'. Then I opted to 'Set date and time automatically:'. When clicking 'Apply', the clock changes to UTC, instead of BST.

The next thing I tried was right-clicking on the clock, choosing 'Digital Clock Settings'. Then I selected 'Time Zones' and noticed that 'London' and 'UTC' were both selected. I unchecked 'UTC'. Then I clicked 'Apply'. 

The clock didn't change from UTC, so I repeated the process for setting time automatically, via the 'Date and Time' window. 

This also had no effect; my clock still shows the UTC time, instead of BST.

So, I am now at a loss about what to do.

Еще раз, спасибо за вашу помощь.

Ричард.


On 22 Aug 2013, at 16:47, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:

написане Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:20:42 +0300, rwb <mr.rwb at ntlworld.com>:

> Hello.
> 
> I'm running SolydK Linux, and live in the U.K. When setting the time via a public server, my desktop clock is being set to UTC. I can see no way of adjusting it to BST [Utc+1]. The KDE Help Centre page makes no mention, as far as I can see, about how to make the correct adjustment, and to set it as default Summertime behaviour for the clock.
> 
> What is the correct way of making the adjustment, please?
> 
> Thanks.

Hi,

There is a special System Settings module for this and documentation page (should be a part of your distribution, but also available online and as PDF for offline reading):

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/clock/index.html

To access this configuration module just press Alt+F2 on your keyboard, then enter "time" (without quotation marks) and choose "Date & Time" from the list below.

In a window that will be opened choose your time zone and configure NTP time server.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yuri