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

[rwb]

Thanks. I'll try that. If it doesn't work, we'll be back on UTC in October. Shall let you know if the workaround is effective.

Apologies for the language mistake. I speak a bit of Russian, and saw your name, plus the 'написане' at the start of the message, and drew the wrong conclusion.

Richard.


On 22 Aug 2013, at 17:59, 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

> Еще раз, спасибо за вашу помощь.
> 
> Ричард.

I'm not a Russian btw. ;) But thanks anyway.

Best regards,
Yuri


> 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
> 
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