Adjust Date & Time does not work for hours

[Greg]

Binary package hint: gnome

First left clicking on the clock provides no apparent method for changing the time. You must first click "Edit" next to Locations then "Time Settings". When adjusting my date, I am not looking for location information, but time information!

Second, right clicking adjust date & time, or left clicking "Time Settings" and changing the time only lasts for the session. As soon as you reboot, the time setting goes back to the old time zone data. The only way to actually fix the hour is to follow these directions:

Try to change your timezone using the command line:
1. Open a terminal window by going to Applications => Accessories => Terminal
2. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
3. Follow the directions in the terminal.

The GUI should provide the ability to change your timezone, or better still, just adjust your time. The user should not have to think about timezones to adjust his clock. Moreover, when adjusting timezones you can't give the CLI tool your timezone, your first to pick a city in your timezone from an alphabetical list. All I wanted to do was correct my system time, yet I ended up on Google Maps to try and figure out which city was in my timezone.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

feature request is not a papercut
For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
I'm unable to reproduce this problem on Lucid.

Please answer these questions:
1. Are you still facing the problem?
2. Is this reproducible? [In which Ubuntu release? ]
3. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

He's using the GNOME Control Center time applet, not time-admin.

I think the issue is that it's not very obvious that you can't change time, but only timezone when you're not authenticated. So you need to unroll Locations, click Modify, and then click Set Time, and then again Set System Time. Another way is right click, Preferences, Set Time, Set System Time.

Maybe we should be more explicit about how this works. This can be very confusing since people don't usually think in terms of: "I'm on time zone UTC+1 so I need to set my system clock to UTC, then my timezone to XXX."

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure what dialog is discussed there but gnome-control-center has no time setting dialog

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Indeed, that's the clock panel applet, not a control center capplet - my mistake.