I seem to remember that you primarily use Slackware, but not sure which
distro you're using in this case.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:40 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> My Xfce4 panel sits at the bottom of the screen, as it has done for more
> than 25 years, with the time at the extreme right end. Because gkrellm runs
> in the lower left corner of the monitor and displays the date and time as
> well as CPU, disk, and eth0 activities I don't pay attention to the panel
> time, or am even aware of it.
>
> But, this morning when I raised the panel to shift focus to a new virtual
> workspace I saw the time is exactly 8 hours ahead of local time; it's on
> UTC
> time. I don't think that it was before I started using gkrellm and would
> check the panel time if I was not wearing a watch.
>
> Trying to set the panel time to -8 I opened the Properties; the time
> setting
> area was blank. Hovering the cursor over the text entry widget a tool-tip
> displayed reporting that an empty widget uses local time, but I could enter
> a time zone such as "America/Los Angeles", which I did. Made no difference.
>
> Examining the Xfce Menu choices I saw nothing about setting the panel
> clock.
>
> My hosts have always used local time, and that's what this one does. The
> gkrellm clock now reads 8:39 while the panel clock reads 16:39.
>
> While a minor annoyance I'd like to fix this. Does anyone know how to do
> so?
>
> Rich
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