On Thursday 22 of August 2013 19:59:43 Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > ???????? Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:24:10 +0300, rwb <mr.rwb at ntlworld.com>: > > Hello, Yuri, and thank-you for the prompt reply. > > > > The shortcut is useful. I have not used KDE for a while, because I had > > been using a really old computer, with Xfce, and it's moved on > > appreciably over the past few years. I had already gone to the 'Date and > > Time' window by the 'old' method of right-clicking on the clock and > > choosing 'Adjust Date and Time...', to setup the clock via > > europe.pool.ntp.org [after trying pool.ntp.org], and choosing my Time > > Zone as 'London'. Then I opted to 'Set date and time automatically:'. > > When clicking 'Apply', the clock changes to UTC, instead of BST. > > > > The next thing I tried was right-clicking on the clock, choosing > > 'Digital Clock Settings'. Then I selected 'Time Zones' and noticed that > > 'London' and 'UTC' were both selected. I unchecked 'UTC'. Then I clicked > > 'Apply'. > > > > The clock didn't change from UTC, so I repeated the process for setting > > time automatically, via the 'Date and Time' window. > > > > This also had no effect; my clock still shows the UTC time, instead of > > BST. > > > > So, I am now at a loss about what to do. > > Regretfully, this problem has nothing to do with KDE itself. The time > zones data are taken from timezones db archive: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database > > The actual data from IANA: > > http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdata2013d.tar.gz > > I'm not an expert but you can try to do as follows > > 1. unpack the archive > 2. edit the data for London (in europe file) > 3. recompile it with "sudo /usr/sbin/zic -d . europe" > 4. put London file into /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe
Hi, but this could break the files provided by the distribution, so I would I would suggest to check for the documentation of your distribution first; maybe the procedure they have in place does not allow the KDE configuration module to change it. Ciao -- Luigi
