[kde-linux] clock off by an hour

[Dale]

tsuraan wrote:
> 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'm in Mississippi and that is what I have mine pointed to as well.  It
should work fine.  As long as it is CST, it doesn't matter if it is
south of the equator.  It will still be correct as far as the time goes.

Dale

:-)  :-)