KDE clock settings

[Bill Davidsen]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>   
> Of course....if you read the thread you'd see that I'd already provided
> a solution...  :-) 
> 
> I'm not certain who you are directing the "get on with the rest of your
> life" comment....but don't you think suggesting that the solution lies
> within the installation dialog just a tag bit of overkill?
> 
He said he couldn't find the check box mentioned by a previous poster, I told 
him where it was. Why is that overkill? Should I leave him wasting his time 
looking in KDE stuff?


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