Bug 392756

Summary:	Can't change time zone && ktimezonedrc gets overwritten at log-in
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	t.schmittlauch
Component:	Digital Clock widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.11.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Description t.schmittlauch 2018-04-05 12:32:37 UTC

I can't change my time zone using `kcmshell5 clock`: Changing the time zon there shows no effect, the time zone is always stuck at "Europe/Helsinki" (which I set manually once).

Even worse,

How to reproduce:

1. open `kcmshell5 clock`
2. Change the time zone to a different one and save.
3. check the clock plasmoid timezone settings for the local time zone or look at the default time zone for new events in KOrganizer

Expected result:

The clock plasmoid should display the new set time zone as "local", the new zone should be default in KOrganizer, the new zone should appear in ~/.config/ktimezonedrc

Even worse, manual changes are not honoured and partly even overwritten:

`/etc/localtime` and `timedatectl` always point to/ report the correct time zone (in my case Europe/Berlin).
`~/.config/ktimezonedrc` gets overwritten during login:
I changed "LocalZone" to Europe/Berlin manually before logging in. After logging in to a plasma5 session, that value was changed to Europe/Helsinki again.

Are there any config files/ databases I'm missing?

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-04-05 12:35:31 UTC

What does "timedatectl" say

Comment 2 t.schmittlauch 2018-04-05 12:39:19 UTC

It always shows the intended time zone:

```
# timedatectl                                                                                                                                                     
                      Local time: Do 2018-04-05 14:36:37 CEST
                  Universal time: Do 2018-04-05 12:36:37 UTC
                        RTC time: Do 2018-04-05 12:36:37
                       Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CEST, +0200)
       System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: no

# ls -l /etc/localtime 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35  5. Apr 14:14 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
```

Comment 3 t.schmittlauch 2018-04-05 12:58:39 UTC

According to `fatrace` ~/.config/ktimezonedrc is overwritten by kded5 at login.
Question still is: based on which information, and why does setting time zones via kcmshell not work?

Comment 4 David Edmundson 2018-04-05 13:23:15 UTC

ktimezoned isn't actually very relevant. We can completely ignore that.

Can I see your: ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Comment 5 t.schmittlauch 2018-04-05 13:48:22 UTC

Created attachment 111848 [details]
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Comment 6 t.schmittlauch 2018-04-05 13:48:43 UTC

The biggest annoyance right now is the wrong default time zone in KOrganizer.

Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2018-05-02 01:30:55 UTC

David, does comment #5 help to investigate the issue?

Comment 8 t.schmittlauch 2018-05-02 15:10:57 UTC

I managed to solve the issue by deleting /etc/timezone

The funny thing is that I never created or edited that file myself as Gentoo manages time with /etc/localtime symlinks.
It'd be interesting to find out how /etc/timezone was ever created, but as I can't reproduce that behaviour I'll close this as fixed.