Missing time in panel

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Jeremy <jeremy.m.cox at gmail.com> writes:

> And voila! You guys saved me about two days of chasing my tail. Creating
> the symbolic link for /etc/localtime to the Chicago time zone in
> /use/share/zoneinfo fixed the issue. Now the time and date are properly
> displayed on the panel and in the sddm greeter.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Jeremy Cox
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 09:05 Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 22 June 2020 12:14:51 CEST Jeremy wrote:
>> > My /etc/localtime file is a binary file. It isn't a symbolic link to the
>> > timezone file.
>>
>> That's actually a really important bit, there: try moving it aside for a
>> moment, making it a symlink, and then giving it a try. I thought I had
>> re-done
>> the patches handling that case for FreeBSD, and landed them in 5.15.
>>
>> [ade]

The same issue appeared for me after updating to 5.15, and the
/etc/localtime symlink workaround fixes it.  Adriaan, it would be great
if those patches could be re-applied!

Bengt