Bug 159171

Summary:	Timezone can't be set correctly and time is wrong
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Colin Bruce <ccx004>
Component:	kcmclock	Assignee:	Paul Campbell <paul>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, razielmine, tim, yinshuiboy
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Colin Bruce 2008-03-12 03:19:42 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.7KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    Slackware PackagesSlackware Packages
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.2 Didn't compile it myself
OS:                Linux

The clock is out by an hour. If I set it to the correct time, a few seconds later the time is once again set to the wrong time (out by an hour)

I choose Settings->System Administration-Date & Time
The time zone is set to Europe/Guernsey.
I set it to Europe/London by clicking on that entry.
It ignores me and leaves it at Europe/Guernsey.
I try other time zones. Actually any one and it remains at Europe/Guernsey except occasionally it sets it to Europe/Lisbon but never anything else.

I have copied Europe/London to /etc/localtime. There is no TZ variable set. I am at a loss to know what to do next.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-12-07 21:14:21 UTC

*** Bug 169644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-12-07 21:14:51 UTC

*** Bug 170163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-12-07 21:15:06 UTC

A fix has been posted on bug #170163

Comment 4 tim 2016-10-13 21:28:42 UTC

confirming the clock timezone function still does not work correctly in kde 4.14.3 (slackware 14.2)
setting the zone to london europe/united kingdom sets the timezone to guernsey/europe

If you set the timezone to lima america/peru  and then to london  europe/united kingdom (and correcting the time appears to work.
Any chance the fix could be tested/applied so it could be used.
thanks

Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:07:52 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!