Installer messed up the system clock time.

[Amit Gholap]

I downloaded and was installing kubuntu.

Time is 3 PM when I was installing.
Change the country to India.
The clock shows 830PM.
Now change the clock to 3 PM.
Now the system clock time gets changed to 930 AM.

My hardware clock is set to my local 3 PM IST (Indian Std Time). So I expect that the time shown on the clock and system time remains same.

[Wim van der Meer (wim-zaf)]

Hi Amit,

I know it has been a while since you reported this bug, I hope I will be able to help you.

In contrast to Windows, Linux computers have their system clocks set to GMT time, and the OS takes care of calculating the local time based on your time-zone settings. I think it is possible to have your system clock set to local time, but you will need to change the OS settings as well.

Is there a specific reason for you to want to system clock set to local time? The only reason I can think of is that you have a dual boot machine with Windows installed as well. Is that the case?

Please let me know if you need more help with this.

++Wim

[Stéphane Marguet (stemp)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!

[Amit Gholap (subscrive)]

Hi,

I didnt get any mail to your comment "Hi Amit, I know it has been a while..."
I need to check my junk mail setting.

I have a dual boot of Win2K and Kubuntu.
If I change the country to India, I expect that the hardware and the OS clock show the same time I want.

Now is the era of localisation. I dont want to sound arrogant, but I as an end user dont care abt GMT. Hence the hardware and software/OS clock should show same time.

Also, in case of dual boot with windows, the windows time goes in for a toss.

I am trying to promote Kubuntu in my friend circle. But people say that if Linux cannot take care of such simple things, its a buggy software.

Hence from end user and marketting perspective, I think this is an important bug - since this is what people are 1st going to see while using Kubuntu.

Thanks.
Ameet.

[Amit Gholap (subscrive)]

If possible, please reopen the bug.

[Stéphane Marguet (stemp)]

Bug reopened