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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:18 am
Can you please clarify the problem you are experiencing exactly?


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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Sat Feb 24, 2018 3:38 pm
Hi Guys

I have been evaluating different distro's before a make the full time jump from Windows. I quite like KDE neon, but KDE plasma has some really silly regional behaviours that are frustrating...

I currently live in Oman, which is an arab country etc. I am British and setup my language prefs as so. When I change the time zone to Muscat, plasma assumes I want everything in Arabic. So I overide this with detailed region settings and setting the clock format to UK, but plasma still continues to show lots of the UI component text in arabic.

The same happens with Kubuntu 17.10, but OpenSUSE behaves correctly.

How can I set my region and language etc to UK, but overide just the time zone?

Thanks

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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Sat Feb 24, 2018 7:18 pm
It is as simple as setting the TZ via the command line?

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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:07 am
It is rather a dirty hack but may solve your problem.


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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Tue Nov 06, 2018 7:09 am
I'd like to reintroduce this issue, it's back again in Kubuntu 18.04 LTS. My toolbar clock shows 2 hours back time, regardless the time ans zone set.
This issue reappeared after recent updates, not really sure when exactly but none of old solution works any more, mostly because of the differences between systems.
The files you guys referring to no longer exist or changed the way it's not applicable.
The only same thing is localtime file in /etc, when I deleted it and set the time and zone again it is now 1 hour back, not 2 but it's still wrong.
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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:45 pm
First suggestions would be to double-check that your time zone is set properly. Right-click on the clock and select Adjust Date and Time. There's probably a check saying to Set date and time automatically (uses the network to ensure proper time is set). On the Time Zone tab, verify that the appropriate time zone is selected.


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Re: KDE Clock is wrong

Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:14 am
Hi,

This started to happen to me after DST change, and it persists even after reboots (my post asking for suggestions: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=155623), I'm using KUbuntu 18.04.1 LTS fully up to date, and kde clock widgets went crazy after the summer time ended:
  • Digital Clock is two hours behind
  • Analog Clock is two hours ahead
  • Fuzzy Clock is two hours ahead too

As reported in the original post system clock is fine, it's just the widgets https://i.imgur.com/PWZK2Zk.png, fiddling with the timezone setting in the Date & Time System Settings Module I can easily cause the widgets to report different hours, I think the Dublin Ireland timezone causes the widgets to go crazy, but the London United Kingdom (which should be the same) works ok (most of the time, depends on what timezone I tried before).

I think the Ireland (Eire) definition of time as winter being summer-1 instead of the usual summer being winter+1 confuses the widgets (see https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/europe#L342 & https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/europe#L514):

# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined
# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it
# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time
# being GMT+1.)

# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-15):
# In January 2018 we discovered that the negative SAVE values in the
# Eire rules cause problems with tests for ICU:
# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018- ... 25825.html
# and with tests for OpenJDK:
# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018- ... 25822.html

Can anyone reproduce that?

Add the analog and digital clock to a panel and try switching to Dublin (Ireland) timezone, if they report different times then it's a bug.

If that's the case I'll report it as a bug on the tracker.

Thanks.


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