clock applet shows UTC time not timezone time when NTP used

[Stephen Boulet]

Using kclock and selecting the "Set date and time automatically" button in the
dialog that comes up when you right-click the clock and choose "Adjust date and
time", I see that the offset between UTC and my current zone gets taken into
account when I hit the apply button. The clock never updates though.

[Seth Kinast (seth)]

Confirming. What's worse is that I can't get kclock to understand what my
correct timezone is anymore; it won't switch back from GMT.

[Seth Kinast (seth)]

Reporter, this bug seems to be fixed as of today for me. Can you confirm?

[Seth Kinast (seth)]

Scratch that... upon reboot, it reverted again, and I'm not sure what I did to
make it work properly the first time.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/345094 describes the same issue,
so this is a KDE problem.

[Seth Kinast (seth)]

Okay, last post on this bug, I promise. This forum thread shows a way to
successfully fix the problem.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=53411

Sorry for bugspam.

[Irvin Piraman (ippiraman)]

An entry on /etc/default/rcS may be the culprit here:

$ cat /etc/default/rcS | grep UTC
# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
UTC=no

Make sure you set UTC to "no" display your local timezone. You can also try running 'tzconfig' to set the timezone properly.

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

I have no trouble at all with this on an up-to-date dapper. Can anyone confirm?

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

No confirmation after about a month, and I still can't reproduce. Please feel free to reopen this if it's still a problem for you.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

I had similar problem: When synchronization was enabled, gnome clock applet
shows time in UTC even I have set Europe/Prague zone and "show UTC" was not checked... When I have adjusted time manualy, it does not change the time at all, I must disable synchronization and then it works.. but when I enable synchronization, the UTC was back... then I have solved this problem by this:
# rm /etc/localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Prague /etc/localtime
...but this is an workaround and should be fixed properly..

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Sorry, I was wrong:
"rm /etc/localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Prague /etc/localtime"
did not help.. after restart the time was UTC again...

"cat /etc/default/rcS | grep UTC" gives "UTC=no"
"show UTC" option of applet is unchecked,
zone is Europe/Prague (UTC+1)

but clock applet still shows UTC when synchronization is enabled

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

for case of gnome clock applet, the problem is gone in feisty final..

[Renata (renata-rocha)]

Problem happens here in a brand new Ubuntu 8.04, with Gnome.
I edited /etc/default/rcS as it is shown below and problem persists:

#
# /etc/default/rcS
#
# Default settings for the scripts in /etc/rcS.d/
#
# For information about these variables see the rcS(5) manual page.
#
# This file belongs to the "initscripts" package.

TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=no
UTC=no
VERBOSE=no
FSCKFIX=no

===

Also I tried symlinking or copying the timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime, rebooting several times, but no success. The only thing that worked for me was setting the time by hand. I have no "UTC" option on the applet, looks like gnome removed the checkbox, as I verifed with some other users.