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Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

Ram — Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:17 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:17 pm

roseway wrote:

As far as I know, Windows doesn't know about UTC, so if you're dual-booting with Windows you have to set your Linux system to use local time, not UTC. It's an installation option, but I'm not sure how to do it on a running system.

Windows 7 uses UTC.

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

el chapul�n — Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:51 am

Author: el chapul�n

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:51 am

roseway wrote:

Assuming the OP is running Linux Mint, which is Debian-like, then

Code:

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

heiowge — Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:05 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:05 am

I think I've got it for the moment. It was defaulting to UTC. I changed it to London time. There must have been something that restored to default occasionally...

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

roseway — Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:47 pm

Author: roseway

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:47 pm

As far as I know, Windows doesn't know about UTC, so if you're dual-booting with Windows you have to set your Linux system to use local time, not UTC. It's an installation option, but I'm not sure how to do it on a running system.

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

Ram — Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:45 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:45 pm

heiowge wrote:

I don't want it on UTC though. We are all on British Summer time here.

You living in a parallel universe, what BST?

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

heiowge — Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:35 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:35 pm

I don't want it on UTC though. We are all on British Summer time here.

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

el chapul�n — Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:05 pm

Author: el chapul�n

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:05 pm

Set your system BIOS clock to UTC and then configure KDE to follow UTC and set up your timezone, etc... you'll also need to set up windows to do that same - no idea on that one...

I had a similar problem dual booting Debian and FreeBSD about 6 months ago.

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

Ram — Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:52 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:52 pm

heiowge wrote:

Yes, but I've never had it happen before. Then again, Windows kept crashing yesterday while I was playing Fallout 3.

I got annoyed and uninstalled it, btw.

The game or Windows.

Just check that your BIOS / Windows and KDE are all set the same.

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

heiowge — Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:30 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:30 pm

Yes, but I've never had it happen before. Then again, Windows kept crashing yesterday while I was playing Fallout 3.

I got annoyed and uninstalled it, btw.

Re: KDE clock keeps going UTC

Ram — Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:09 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:09 pm

Are you dual booting this machine.... Windows does the same thing on my machine.

KDE clock keeps going UTC

heiowge — Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:00 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:00 pm

I keep losing an hour. Yesterday I rebooted and my clock went from London time to UTC (London time - 1 hour).

I reset it and find this morning it's back to UTC.

Any ideas?