Thanks. I'll try that. If it doesn't work, we'll be back on UTC in October. Shall let you know if the workaround is effective.
Apologies for the language mistake. I speak a bit of Russian, and saw your name, plus the '????????' at the start of the message, and drew the wrong conclusion. Richard. On 22 Aug 2013, at 17:59, 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 > ??? ???, ??????? ?? ???? ??????. > > ??????. I'm not a Russian btw. ;) But thanks anyway. Best regards, Yuri > On 22 Aug 2013, at 16:47, Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > > ???????? Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:20:42 +0300, rwb <mr.rwb at ntlworld.com>: > >> Hello. >> >> I'm running SolydK Linux, and live in the U.K. When setting the time via a >> public server, my desktop clock is being set to UTC. I can see no way of >> adjusting it to BST [Utc+1]. The KDE Help Centre page makes no mention, as >> far as I can see, about how to make the correct adjustment, and to set it as >> default Summertime behaviour for the clock. >> >> What is the correct way of making the adjustment, please? >> >> Thanks. > > Hi, > > There is a special System Settings module for this and documentation page > (should be a part of your distribution, but also available online and as PDF > for offline reading): > > http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/clock/index.html > > To access this configuration module just press Alt+F2 on your keyboard, then > enter "time" (without quotation marks) and choose "Date & Time" from the list > below. > > In a window that will be opened choose your time zone and configure NTP time > server. > > Hope this helps. > > Best regards, > Yuri > > _______________________________________________ > kde-doc-english mailing list > kde-doc-english at kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english
