Bug 1375191 - Timezone is not updated automatically even though set to be
Summary: Timezone is not updated automatically even though set to be
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: 24
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-12 12:43 UTC by Todd Warner
Modified: 2017-12-10 10:11 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 17:18:53 UTC
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Description Todd Warner 2016-09-12 12:43:55 UTC
Description of problem:
Timezone is not updated automagically even though set to be in GNOME Control Center. I am currently working in the US Eastern Time Zone, and my laptop thinks it is the Pacific Time Zone.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-3.20.1-1.fc24.x86_64
systemd-229-13.fc24.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
I live in US Eastern Time Zone (Raleigh, NC).
I flew to Vegas with my laptop (US Pacific Time Zone), the timezone updated at some point just fine. I did not note when this happened.

Going home...
I suspended the laptop and flew back home (Raleigh, NC) -- PT to ET
I notice the laptop refuses to update the timezone properly and remains in PT.


Additional info:
I checked my settings: GNOME Control Center > Date & Time ...
Yup! Automatic Date & Time and Automatic Time Zone are both on. I even turned off the time zone switch ...waited a bit... and tuned it back on. No change.

For reference here are the results of timedatectl:
[taw@rh ~]$ timedatectl
      Local time: Mon 2016-09-12 05:36:37 PDT
  Universal time: Mon 2016-09-12 12:36:37 UTC
        RTC time: Mon 2016-09-12 12:36:37
       Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
 Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no

Comment 1 Todd Warner 2016-09-13 21:02:56 UTC
Additional information... chronyd. chrony-2.4-1.fc24.x86_64 ...

[taw@rh ~]$ systemctl status chronyd
● chronyd.service - NTP client/server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-09-12 17:00:48 EDT; 23h ago
 Main PID: 19236 (chronyd)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/chronyd.service
           └─19236 /usr/sbin/chronyd

Sep 13 14:54:56 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 198.55.111.50 offline
Sep 13 14:54:56 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 204.2.134.163 offline
Sep 13 14:54:56 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 129.250.35.251 offline
Sep 13 14:54:56 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 129.6.15.30 offline
Sep 13 14:54:56 rh chronyd[19236]: Can't synchronise: no selectable sources
Sep 13 14:54:58 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 129.6.15.30 online
Sep 13 14:54:58 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 198.55.111.50 online
Sep 13 14:54:58 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 204.2.134.163 online
Sep 13 14:54:58 rh chronyd[19236]: Source 129.250.35.251 online
Sep 13 14:54:58 rh chronyd[19236]: Selected source 129.6.15.30

Comment 2 Todd Warner 2016-09-14 21:27:26 UTC
Another point of reference...
I Have a F23 box in a virt instance. When it comes back from "pause" the time, date, and timezone simply do not auto-update (also using GNOME3 UI in this case, in case that matters).

Comment 3 Todd Warner 2016-09-15 16:48:27 UTC
Additional info...

That F23 in a virt instance (GNOME3 enabled): Does not autoupdate the time and zone until I uncheck and then recheck control-panel settings.

So, in summary:
In F23 -- doesn't autoupdate without uncheck/check
In F24 -- doesn't autoupdate... at all without forcing the change with timedatectl

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Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2017-08-08 17:18:53 UTC
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Comment 6 Mincho Gaydarov 2017-12-10 10:11:17 UTC
For me this was solved by enabling "Location Services" in Settings->Privacy which allowed for the time zone to be changed straight away.


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