From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: The clock applet in the gnome panel only displays UTC time. The system is set to store time as UTC time. The timezone information is correctly set. The "date" command at the prompt displays the correct local time. The adjust time and date dialog for the clock applet also displays the correct local time. The UTC checkbox is not checked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set system time to UTC time 2. set timezone 3. applet displays UTC time not local time Actual Results: UTC time Expected Results: Local time Additional info:
I rebooted the system and the display corrected itself to local time and not UTC time. Apologies for the wasted bandwidth.
Closing as NOTABUG based on comment #1
I'm having the same problem, my system time is not set to UTC but the applet only displays time in UTC. Reboot doesn't solve the problem.
After several reboots the clock is working correctly again. But I'm sure there is something wrong with it, I´ll perform another installation, see what happens and report back.
We are seeing this bug in a fresh install of RHEL3 U2 in the Brisbane office. Very frustrating. It isn't the clock's fault though, because outgoing mail from Evolution has the wrong time of day too.
Sarah said that it was fine on her RHEL3 U2 install for a day, until she enabled ntp to automatically sync time, and subsequently it was problematic. Investigating further...
Sarah disabled ntp and it returned back to normal. I am unable to reproduce this problem on an identical RHEL3 U2 install on vmware. This is either a problem with glibc, or more likely the configuration tools.
what is in /etc/sysconfig/clock ??
how do you set your timezone? # /usr/sbin/timeconfig should be used...
Sarah is unwilling to subject her personal laptop to testing, so until we manage to reproduce this on another box we cannot debug it. =(
Contents of /etc/sysconfig/clock on my system: ZONE="America/Vancouver" UTC=true ARC=false
We have seen this, or something much like it, on fresh RHEL3 installs with timezone set to PST and an NTP timeserver setup. Both on GUI installs and on kickstart installs. Going back with the dateconfig and setting the TZ to something different and then setting it back seems to resolve the problem for us. In all cases, the system hardware clock is running UTC and the system is configured to connect to a V3 (no encryption) NTP server for syncro.
/etc/localtime may have the wrong permissions. Please check, that it is readable by any user!
[bgsmith@pico bgsmith]$ ls -l /etc/localtime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1037 May 17 19:34 /etc/localtime I should note that on my system (rhel 3) this is no longer an issue. I apologize that I cannot recall what I did, or what was done to correct the problem. Brad