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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
