[kde-linux] clock off by an hour

[Leslie Rhorer]

> 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
> :).

	I see the smiley, so I am not quite sure how serious you are.  A
time zone covers a region roughly 1000 miles wide at the equator.  Sidereal
time is based upon one's exact longitude, but local time is normalized to be
consistent with the center of the time zone for each given region.  IF you
proceeded east or west from your location, the local time would remain the
same for quite some distance until it suddenly "jumped" by one hour.