This is odd. I haven’t changed anything, but now the time visible in Debian KDE is incorrect.
I’m in US-East TZ (-5), and the time on the login screen is correct but the time in the system tray is wrong. It’s set to automatically get time from NTP, and it’s set to the correct time zone.
What’s going on?
Latency to the NTP server?
Not three hours worth, I hope!
huh? but the two clocks shown only diff by 1 second?
I think that he’s trying to show the time settings next to a clock, both while logged in. The time settings page just also happens to show a clock. I don’t think that he’s showing the not-logged-in clock that dramatically differs from the logged-in clock.
Yeah I’m not 100% sure what happened there - I took the screenshot next to the current time so y’all could see the three hour difference. I was flipping time zones in the settings back and forth to try and fix it because it seemed stuck, but obviously the times match in the picture. Either it fixed itself while I was messing with it, or I was an idiot and took the picture while I had it set to the wrong time zone (which, factoring in the mysterious incorrect offset, was the correct time). I’m not sure.
NTP compensates for network latency, and that wouldn’t be substantial anyway.