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On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 00:36:31 -0800
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Ok you unlucky ones, here it is: I live in Hawaii. I have spent a lot of time and effort setting my time to "gmt-10"= hawaii time. I realise that the work ethic around here does leave a lot of room to move around in, HOWEVER: as soon as I turned the xntpd daemon on, well, actually about 4-5 hours later, the kde displayed time jumped to California time, 2 hours ahead!!!! That would be too much for most but the real hard core "hawaii time die hards"!!
I dutyfully right clicked on the time display, typed in my root pword and prepared myself to reset the time, ALAS, it WAS properly set in Yast!!!!!!! The kde display just added a couple of hours to confuse us haole insurgents!!!! Now the clincher: A "redo" resulted in a time display 3 hours behind the local time, that would be 5 hours behind California time and 3 hours behind "normal" time, ie summertime time diff from Ca (we do not the silly fall back / jump forward one hour bit in the fall and in the Spring)!!!!!!! I mean nothing against California, actually i wish them the best with their problems, BUT I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THEIR TIME AS MINE!!!!! Is your system set to local time or UTC time? Use YaST, and click on System/Editor for Sysconfig files Then open environment/clock. HWCLOCK should be set to either -u or --localtime. TIMEZONE should be set to US/Hawaii This should set your timezone up correctly. Certainly GMT-10 should be correc.t
The time servers you use in /etc/ntp.conf should not affect your
timezone settings.
Once you have verified that YaST has this correct, then run the date
command with the -u flag. This will display the UTC (eg. GMT) time. In
your case, this should show a time 10 hours ahead of yours. Also, use
the hwclock command with the --show parameter. That will also show the
correct timezone.
AFAIK, KDE would be using the time(3), or gettimeofday(2) functions to
get the current time. The latter function also optionally gets the time
zone information. So, I think that the problem is still with your system
and not with KDE per se.
If you are a programmer, use the gettimeofday system call and write a
short program to check the timezone, but hwclock --show should provide
the correct information.
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Jerry Feldman