Description of problem: Timezone selection won't accept London. It jumps to Guernsey Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right-click on Clock and select Adjust Date/time 2. Select London from the timezone list then click on apply Actual results: Right-click on Clock and note that the timezone is back to Guernsey Expected results: Timezone should be London Additional info:
Strange behavior... As long as it lands on something on BST, it's not a critical bug, but it's very weird, because e.g. Vienna can be selected just fine, it won't switch to some other city which happens to be on CEST.
It's not just London, "Isle of Man" does the same thing (for me).
I guess it has something against Great Britain? Maybe it's some confusion on whether it's actually "Great Britain" or the "United Kingdom"?
At this point, I'd say file this upstream @ bugs.kde.org, and see what other folks have to say.
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This bug is still there in Fedora 10. I noticed that in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/ the files for Guernsey and London are identical, but for Vienna and Berlin they are different. Oslo and Longyearbyen are also identical (the bug has been reported with these cities too). I don't know how the time zone is determined in KDE, but if it just compares /etc/localtime with the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and reports the first match, this would explain the strange behaviour.
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Reopening, comment #6 says it still happens in F10.
(In reply to comment #6) > This bug is still there in Fedora 10. > > I noticed that in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/ the files for Guernsey and London > are identical, but for Vienna and Berlin they are different. Oslo and > Longyearbyen are also identical (the bug has been reported with these cities > too). > > I don't know how the time zone is determined in KDE, but if it just compares > /etc/localtime with the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and reports the first > match, this would explain the strange behaviour. It is still there in F11 as well.
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Fwiw, I can no longer reproduce this on f12/kde-4.3.3
This is still here (or back again) in F13 (kernel 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 / KDE 4.4.4) IIRC I had the same problem in F12 previously. As Stephan Matthiesen observes (#6) the Guernsey & London files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe have identical MD5 checksums, but so do other places in the same TZ that would match before e.g. Belfast.
Update to #12: If I try to change the TZ using "Adjust Date & Time" from RMC on digital clock I am stuck with Guernsey. If I use "Digital Clock Settings" and use Timezone panel I can change it to London - same if I use "Date & Time" in Administration menu. Now if I hover over the digital clock I see both London and Guernsey...