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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unable to change time zone
From:       jos poortvliet <jospoortvliet () kde ! nl>
Date:       2007-03-17 21:02:54
Message-ID: 200703172202.57792.jospoortvliet () kde ! nl
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Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Robin Atwood:
> On Sunday 18 Mar 2007, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 17. März 2007 schrieb Robin Atwood:
> > > I have just returned to the UK and cannot reset my locale to GMT. When
> > > I first powered up my notebook, at the cli I copied the new zoneinfo to
> > > /etc/localtime, updated /etc/conf.d/clock (this a Gentoo system), set
> > > the new time with date and hwclock. So far, all went well, the output
> > > of date was correct and the syslog had the right time-stamps. However,
> > > when I logged onto KDE, it promptly reset the zone to the previous
> > > value! Using kcontrol in administrator mode, I tried again, setting the
> > > zone and time, but after a few minutes it was reverted to the previous
> > > setting. What is going one here? Does KDE have its own zoneinfo
> > > parameters saved somewhere? This is KDE 3.5.6 and has at the latest
> > > updates in Portage.
> >
> > Are you using ntp(date) to set the time from the internet?
> >
> > Maybe you haven't told ntp to use another timezone now...
>
> I have the ntpd service running and stopped it during the change of
> settings. /etc/ntp.conf does not have any time zone parameters.
>
> But you jogged my memory! Months back I had trouble with logwatch because
> Perl does not understand ICT time (GMT+7 in SE Asia) and I had a rogue
> "export TZ=" in my ~/.bash_profile. Removing that made all the difference!
>
> Cheers...
> -Robin.

Ok, good it's solved. Next time you might wanna look for another mailinglist 
for problems like this, this one isn't really the best one ;-)

-- 
Jos Poortvliet
KDE-nl
http://www.kde.nl
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