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

[Luigi Toscano]

On Thursday 22 of August 2013 19:59:43 Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
> написане Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:24:10 +0300, rwb <mr.rwb at ntlworld.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> Regretfully, this problem has nothing to do with KDE itself. The time
> zones data are taken from timezones db archive:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
> 
> The actual data from IANA:
> 
> http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2013d.tar.gz
> 
> I'm not an expert but you can try to do as follows
> 
> 1. unpack the archive
> 2. edit the data for London (in europe file)
> 3. recompile it with "sudo /usr/sbin/zic -d . europe"
> 4. put London file into /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe

Hi,
but this could break the files provided by the distribution, so I would I 
would suggest to check for the documentation of your distribution first; maybe 
the procedure they have in place does not allow the KDE configuration module 
to change it.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi