KDE clock settings

[Sharpe, Sam J]

2009/9/2 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:36 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>>> So, when you installed Fedora, did you carefully uncheck that little
>>>> box that says "System Clock uses UTC"? Windows does not really
>>>> understand UTC or handle it very well. The solution is to go to the
>>>> System --> Administration --> Date and Time application, click the
>>>> Time Zone
>>>> tab, uncheck the Clock Uses UTC box, click OK, reboot the machine,
>>>> go into your BIOS and set the hardware clock correctly if need be. That
>>>> should fix things.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to accomplish this under KDE? The "Clock uses UTC" box
>>> doesn't seem to exist in the KDE universe (under System Settings->Date
>>> and Time.)
>> The little box is in the install dialog.
>>
> So, is your solution that a reinstall should be done to fix this
> problem?  :-)

Setting "System Clock uses UTC" converts to this in /etc/sysconfig/clock:

UTC=true

So the answer is edit /etc/sysconfig/clock as root, change that to
false, reboot and get on with the rest of your life.

-- 
Sam