Where does kde get it's list of timezones from?

Every app and setting location in kde only shows one item in the Time Zones dialog box, UTC. And the clock that appears on the desktop is defaulting to UTC (I live in the PST8PDT Pacific timezone). I would really like to reset the clock properly but can't find a way to do so.

The hardware clock is set correctly, and the /etc/timezone file is the PST8PDT file from /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.

When I run Xwindows by itself (the x11 default desktop) the clock is correct. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

Forgive the perhaps silly question but do you dual boot with windows?

If so you could set Linux to local and your clock problems should disappear.

Thanks for the reply.

I am running FreeBSD as a standalone OS, no dual-booting.

just guessing: do you have the file /usr/lib64/kde4/kded_ktimezoned.so the location might be different in FreeBSD and if so is it read and executable or all users (permissions should be something like -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root)

does it work for a new/different user ?

Thank you for the reply.

That file does not exist in any of the lib* directories on my computer. In fact there isn't a kde4 directory in either.

The same issue happens with all users on this system.

I will do a find on the system and see if we can't track it down. It's an old pentium 4M so I expect it to take a while

Nope, that file does not exist on my system. Should I reset and recompile the kde libraries?

You need to compile and install kde-runtime as noted in the other thread. Both KDE applications, and to a greater extent, the KDE Plasma Desktop are functionally limited in many areas if kde-runtime is missing. This includes timezone information.

Thanks for the info. Making the build now.

Thanks to everyone that responded!