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mata_svada

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From: Salzburg, Austria

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 36

[solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

I'm having weird problems with the time settings (kmail displaying the wrong timeso I was wondering what the correct settings in my rc.conf regarding time should be.

My HW-clock is set tu UTC and I'm living in Austria (Central european summertime).

Last edited by mata_svada (2007-05-07 14:11:15)

Cx

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From: Czech Republic, Pardubice

Registered: 2007-03-12

Posts: 15

Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

Hallo

can you paste here what do you have in your rc.conf and what show kmail??

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

Good evening.

I'm from Ausria as well and these settings work perfectly well for me.

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="de_AT.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Vienna"

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mata_svada

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From: Salzburg, Austria

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 36

Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

@Cx: I have

HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Etc/GMT+2"

in my rc.conf and KMail just writes two hours earlier in the date-column. E. g. when I send an email @ 12:30 KMail displays 10:30.

@chaosgeisterchen: Your settings wouldn't work for me because my hardwareclock is set to UTC.

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,223

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Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

I'm also experiencing problems with this. This is my rc.conf:

LOCALE="nl_BE.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Brussels"
KEYMAP=be-latin1

I set my bios to the utc-time I found on wikipedia, and now XFCE adds 3 hours in the panel and gnome adds 2 hours in the panel...

Zl.

mata_svada

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From: Salzburg, Austria

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 36

Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

With the new kernel (2.6.21) time settings have gone crazy (hwclock 3 h earlier than before upgrade, KDE clock in the panel 2 hours earlier). Does anyone else have similar problems?

dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

mata, I don't think the Etc/GMT* timezones work as you might think.. from the documentation for a gentoo linux install:

Please avoid the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT* timezones as their names do not indicate the expected zones. For instance, GMT-8 is in fact GMT+8.

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,223

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Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

I don't know what is causing this behaviour, but I'm pretty sure I had the same problems before the kernel upgrade (although I did alter the HWclock when I rebooted into the new kernel, so you might be right...)

Zl.

mata_svada

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From: Salzburg, Austria

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 36

Re: [solved] Correct time settings in rc.conf

I changed Timezone to Europe/Vienna and now it seems to work correctly. Thanks for the help!