[kde-linux] clock off by an hour

[Dale]

tsuraan wrote:
> This is sort of driving me mad.  My system's time is correct from the
> terminal and from system settings -> date and time.  However, the
> clock applet says that it is an hour earlier than it is.  I'm running
> KDE 4.3.2 under Gentoo on a laptop.  The time was fine for a few
> weeks, and then one day I woke up my laptop and it was off by an hour.
>  I've tried rebooting, exiting KDE (and X) to restart dbus, and
> deleting .kde4/share/config/ktimezonedrc.  Nothing had any effect, and
> KDE somehow managed to recover the ktimezonedrc file that I had
> deleted.  That was sort of spooky.  Anyhow, does anybody know how I
> can get my clock back to displaying the correct time?
>
> I can also add an analog clock widget; it displays the same (wrong)
> time that the digital clock displays.  How can the system settings
> have a different time from the applets?  Don't they get the time from
> a common source?
>   

Is it possible that you selected a different time zone?  It may also be
checking or unchecking daylight savings time too. 

Just a couple things to check on.

Dale

:-)  :-)