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?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    11 months ago

    the time on the login screen is correct but the time in the system tray is wrong.

    Well, there’s one system clock, so if it’s right on the login screen, it’s probably not that.

    Is it wrong by an integer number of hours? Like, maybe there’s a per-user setting.

    kagis

    https://opensource.com/article/22/2/use-different-time-zones-linux-kde

    Yeah, it sounds like KDE has some kind of per-user setting, since the timezone is in the user settings…unless it grants the local user the ability to modify the systemwide timezone, that’d have to be a per-user setting.

    EDIT: The systemwide timezone is in /etc/timezone. I’m not sure how KDE sets its per-user timezone, though it looks like it’s possible to do so at a user level via setting the TZ environment variable, so you could echo $TZ in a shell and see if that’s set to something else, if that’s how it applies it.