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hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 87

[Solved] [Plasma 5] Digital clock applet ignores timezone settings

Hi everyone,

i just switched from KDE4 to Plasma 5 yesterday (just official repositories, everything up to date) and everything went really smooth. There is just one thing bugging me: The digital clock applet in the control panel won't show the time for my local timezone. Hardware clock is UTC, the configuration for the digital clock in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc looks like this:

[Containments][19][Applets][28]
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.plasma.digitalclock

[Containments][19][Applets][28][Configuration][Appearance]
selectedTimeZones=Europe/Berlin
showDate=true

[Containments][19][Applets][28][Configuration][ConfigDialog]
DialogHeight=540
DialogWidth=720

So the value is stored correctly, but the shown time remains UTC. Same, when I choose any other timezone.

So: Am I doing something terribly wrong or is this a known bug? I was not able to find anything on the web…

Thanks in advance,

Torben

Last edited by hoerbert (2015-01-25 14:13:52)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [Solved] [Plasma 5] Digital clock applet ignores timezone settings

What is the output of:

ls -l /etc/localtime

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hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 87

Re: [Solved] [Plasma 5] Digital clock applet ignores timezone settings

[hoerbert@Arch ~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2309 10. Jul 2013  /etc/localtime

Btw.: The analog clock applet shows the "right" time.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] [Plasma 5] Digital clock applet ignores timezone settings

The file at /etc/localtime should be a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin (in your case) -- try creating the symlink and see if it fixes it.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … #Time_zone

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hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 87

Re: [Solved] [Plasma 5] Digital clock applet ignores timezone settings

Hmm… I'm pretty sure I did this back in the days when I installed arch…

But, as expected, it works. So thanks.

Torben