[kde-linux] clock off by an hour

[tsuraan]

Ok, so it looks like the probem was a conflict between my
/etc/localtime and KDE4's idea of what valid timezones are.  I noticed
that system preferences doesn't list any of the US/* items that are in
the zoneinfo, while my actual /etc/localtime is linked to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central.  I guess that the discrepancy between
KDE's idea of valid timezones and my current time zone was breaking
things, so it decided to put me in Cancun.  I think there's probably a
more graceful way to handle that case, but setting my /etc/localtime
to America/Chicago instead of US/Central let KDE remember my timezone,
which is good enough for me (although it is a few hundred miles off
:).

On 27/10/2009, tsuraan <tsuraan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ok, so it looks like the system settings date and time displays the
> system time, but the clock applet displays the system time, offset by
> the timezone.  Somehow KDE keeps putting me back on cancun time.  I've
> tried deleting the tz file for KDE, I've tried setting my time zone to
> Chicago, but it keeps putting itself back on Cancun time.  I found the
> setting in the digital clock applet where it lets me set its timezone
> specifically, so now my system time (which is US/Central) agrees with
> my digital clock, which is manually set to Chicago, but somehow KDE
> keeps putting itself back on Cancun time.  How can it do that?  Is
> there some diabolical process that keeps "fixing" my system to put me
> in cancun?  Does anybody have any hints on what process that would be,
> so I can kill it?  I've tried grepping through my entire .kde4 dir,
> and aside from the ktimezonedrc that I keep deleting, there is no
> mention of cancun anywhere.
>