KDE reports: 'Current local timezone: Europe/Rome (CEST)' even after the switch to winter time (CET). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open system settings 2. click Time Zone tab 3. set Area: Rome (Region: Europe/Italy) as timezone 4. apply Actual Results: KDE reports: 'Current local timezone: Europe/Rome (CEST)', but at the time of filing this bug (17th November 2013) Italy is in winter time (CET). Expected Results: KDE should report: 'Current local timezone: Europe/Rome (CET)' The machine is a Macbook Pro 7,1 OS is Slackware 14.1 Additional information from the cli: root@darkstar:~# date Sun Nov 17 11:11:01 CET 2013 root@darkstar:~# hwclock Sun 17 Nov 2013 11:11:05 AM CET -0.206320 seconds root@darkstar:~# md5sum /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome 9828f4466350e4529d97c04e85554430 /etc/localtime 9828f4466350e4529d97c04e85554430 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome
We simply set it to Rome, whether that is CET or CEST should come from that file. If that information is wrong, that file needs fixing There's nothing KDE can do about it. Sorry