Time in Kubuntu

[Teimuraz Abashidze]

>As a workaround you could revert the update of the tzdata package or you
>could set a different time zone which has the same offset from UTC as
>your time zone (until a future update corrects the fault).

To Nils Kassube:

Man, you're genios! ;-) I've changed my timezone to Tehran (it's the same
+4) and now it shows correct time everywhere!

It's interesting, timezone files for Ukraine and Georgia ONLY where
damaged?

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:26 PM Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Teimuraz Abashidze wrote:
> > I've got the same issue. Kubuntu 16.04, time in system tray is 4 hours
> > different from system time. Before it it was always OK.
> > Also as I had set it to show time in 24 hour format, it didn't, just
> > showing e.g. 10:20 (or 10:20 AM if I swithc 24 hours showing off).
>
> So you have found even more errors than Igor.
>
> > After number of swith on/swith off and other experiments, now it shows
> > correct time in stsrem tray, even 24 hours format- 22:21. but system
> > time is:
> >
> > Mon Oct 17 06:21:37 +04 2016
> >
> > My timezone is really +4 Tbilisi/Asia, but local time is actually
> > 22:21. It seems that it shows UTC time as local in console.
>
> You mean with the "date" command?
>
> > And also:
> >
> > # hwclock
> > hwclock: Warning: unrecognized third line in adjtime file
> > (Expected: `UTC' or `LOCAL' or nothing.)
> > Mon 17 Oct 2016 10:23:34 AM +04  .901510 seconds
> >
> > Maybe that is the reason? I've checked /etc/adjtime:
> >
> > # cat /etc/adjtime
> > 0.0 0 0.0
> > 0
> > LOCAL
> >
> > It seems that this is correct, isn't it? So what can be the reason of
> > such strange behavior?
>
> Maybe there is a missing newline or an additional space at the end of
> the third line. Both would give the error message above.
>
> But I can't imagine that it would be the reason for the wrong display
> because on my system the adjtime file is OK. Still if I set the time
> zone to Tbilisi or Kiev, the system tray clock is wrong, like you and
> Igor explained.
>
> My conclusion: Either the fault is caused by some bad time zone files
> which came with the recent update of the tzdata package, or there is a
> bug in the way the clock widget (or some other component of KDE) reads
> those files.
>
> As a workaround you could revert the update of the tzdata package or you
> could set a different time zone which has the same offset from UTC as
> your time zone (until a future update corrects the fault).
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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