Desktop & File properties Clock Time Issues

[Orbmiser]

Confused have time adjusted manually and was working

Getting really confused over this overly complicated for Time settings thing.
Digital Clock settings set for America/Los Angeles PST
Adjust Time & Date settings have to set manually which shows correct time.

Trying auto-adjust with north-ameriac.pool.ntp.org sets time off by +7 hrs.

orbmiser@Winterfell ~ $ sudo hwclock --debug
[sudo] password for orbmiser:
hwclock from util-linux 2.20.1
Using /dev interface to clock.
Last drift adjustment done at 1363125161 seconds after 1969
Last calibration done at 1363125161 seconds after 1969
Hardware clock is on UTC time
Assuming hardware clock is kept in UTC time.
Waiting for clock tick...
...got clock tick
Time read from Hardware Clock: 2013/03/12 22:04:29
Hw clock time : 2013/03/12 22:04:29 = 1363125869 seconds since 1969
Tue 12 Mar 2013 10:04:29 PM UTC -0.279853 seconds

orbmiser@Winterfell ~ $ date
Wed Mar 13 05:04:59 UTC 2013

So getting confused How Do We Set Time? And why is it so overly complicated? multiple places?

Rebooting clock changes after a minute to being ahead 7hrs to actual PST. And pulling hair at this point.
Thanks any help is appreciated. As can't believe how hard and confusing it is just to set system wide time.
.

[JoeInMN]

KDE 4.10.1

I am having a similar problem. The time zone is set to Chicago/Central in both the DIgital Clock and Sytem Time/Date settings, but the time keeps resetting itself to five hours fast, probably Univesal Time for some reason. I can reset it manually, but it goes wrong again with a restart (or after suspending, or possibly under some circumstances that I haven't pinned down yet). I also can find no way to enable the automatic time setting, as it requires admin privileges, but does not pop up a password box to let me do this. These issues started within the last week or so, and I do not remember having them before.

[homerscousin]

Hi, guys. I recognize Orbmiser from the avitar and JoeInMN , you state you are running KDE 4.10. We are all on KDE 4.10. My clock is fine, even after the recent change to DST, I'm in the Boston area. If I can help by posting some config file or whatever, let me know. I'm just not here every day. I use the default clock in my taskbar. It works and I don't need anything else- no conky and no widgets for displaying time. To JoeInMN: Maybe this does have to do with DST.? if it only started last week?

[anandrkris]

KDE 4.10.1

I am having a similar problem. ........ I can reset it manually, but it goes wrong again with a restart (or after suspending, or possibly under some circumstances that I haven't pinned down yet)........ These issues started within the last week or so, and I do not remember having them before.

Same issue.

Edit - Screenshot added.

[anandrkris]

anand: is polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 running ?
yes..
anand: it works for me. (on fedora we ship a policykit rule allowing it)
oh!
it could be a Mint specific issue?
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=128331
anand: yup
rdieter:okies...
anand: example, http://paste.fedoraproject.org/5128/35960113 , shipped as /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/11-fedora-kde-policy.rules
anand: but, without that, polkit is supposed to prompt you for privledge elevation

From IRC - Chat with KDE team. Mint does not have any such policy kit configuration files. Will appreciate assistance from MInt KDE experts.

// kde-settings authorizations/policy for the wheel group.
//
// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, it will be overwritten on update.
//
// Allow users in the wheel group to do set the clock in kcm_clock without being
// interrupted by a password dialog

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.save" &&
subject.isInGroup("wheel") && subject.active) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});

[JoeInMN]

Now I have discovered that something is resetting not just the KDE time settings, but the computer's clock itself. At the machine's bootup screen, I hold F2 to get into the boot settings, and the system clock is at the wrong time. I set it correctly and hit F10 to save. KDE starts with the panel clock showing the correct time, but a few seconds later it goes back to being wrong again. I restart and do the F2 thing again, and the clock is wrong as before. Repeat.

ASUS EEE netbook. Some of the system info from Hardinfo (apologies for the length; not sure what might be relevant):

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Computer
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Summary
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-Computer-
Processor      : 4x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570   @ 1.66GHz
Memory      : 2052MB (651MB used)
Operating System      : Linux Mint 13 Maya
User Name      : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date/Time      : Sat 16 Mar 2013 12:07:20 AM UTC
-Display-
Resolution      : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer      : Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor      : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter      : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
 Lid Switch
 Sleep Button
 Power Button
 Power Button
 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
 Video Bus
 PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE
 USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam
 HDA Intel Headphone
 Eee PC WMI hotkeys
 ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD2500BPVT-8

Operating System
----------------

-Version-
Kernel      : Linux 3.2.0-38-generic (i686)
Compiled      : #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:20:02 UTC 2013
C Library      : Unknown
Default C Compiler      : GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
Distribution      : Linux Mint 13 Maya
-Current Session-
Computer Name      : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User Name      : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home Directory      : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-Misc-
Uptime      : 11 minutes
Load Average      : 1.40, 1.25, 0.86

Kernel Modules
--------------

-Loaded Modules-
snd_hrtimer      : ALSA hrtimer backend
joydev      : Joystick device interfaces
bcma      : Broadcom's specific AMBA driver
arc4      : ARC4 Cipher Algorithm
eeepc_wmi      : Eee PC WMI Hotkey Driver
asus_wmi      : Asus Generic WMI Driver
sparse_keymap      : Generic support for sparse keymaps
parport_pc      : PC-style parallel port driver
ppdev
rfcomm      : Bluetooth RFCOMM ver 1.11
bnep      : Bluetooth BNEP ver 1.3
bluetooth      : Bluetooth Core ver 2.16
snd_hda_codec_realtek      : Realtek HD-audio codec
snd_hda_intel      : Intel HDA driver
snd_hda_codec      : HDA codec core
snd_hwdep      : Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm      : Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq_midi      : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
uvcvideo      : USB Video Class driver
videodev      : Device registrar for Video4Linux drivers v2
usbhid      : USB HID core driver
binfmt_misc
snd_rawmidi      : Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
hid
snd_seq_midi_event      : MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
brcmsmac      : Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver.
snd_seq      : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
psmouse      : PS/2 mouse driver
serio_raw      : Raw serio driver
mac80211      : IEEE 802.11 subsystem
snd_timer      : ALSA timer interface
snd_seq_device      : ALSA sequencer device management
brcmutil      : Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver utilities.
cfg80211      : wireless configuration support
snd      : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
crc8      : CRC8 (by Williams, Ross N.) function
cordic      : Cordic functions
soundcore      : Core sound module
snd_page_alloc      : Memory allocator for ALSA system.
mac_hid
lp
parport
i915      : Intel Graphics
drm_kms_helper      : DRM KMS helper
drm      : DRM shared core routines
atl1c      : Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
i2c_algo_bit      : I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
wmi      : ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver
video      : ACPI Video Driver

Filesystems
-----------

-Mounted File Systems-
/dev/sda1   /   26.90 % (166.1 GiB of 227.3 GiB)   
udev   /dev   0.00 % (992.2 MiB of 992.2 MiB)   
tmpfs   /run   0.23 % (399.9 MiB of 400.8 MiB)   
none   /run/lock   0.00 % (5.0 MiB of 5.0 MiB)   
none   /run/shm   0.00 % (1002.0 MiB of 1002.0 MiB)   

Environment Variables
---------------------

-Environment Variables-
KDE_FULL_SESSION      : true
DM_CONTROL      : /var/run/xdmctl
GS_LIB      : /home/xxx/.fonts
USER      : xxx
SSH_AGENT_PID      : 1396
SHLVL      : 0
XCURSOR_SIZE      : 0
XDM_MANAGED      : method=classic
HOME      : /home/xxx
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE      : a96e9d661c09d4fb6411a1610000000b-1363373748.812490-1972057860
DESKTOP_SESSION      : kde-plasma
KDE_SESSION_VERSION      : 4
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS      : unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-3HPTnojNLC,guid=15eae08a686968192a1ba35d0000001f
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY      : libappmenu.so
MANDATORY_PATH      : /usr/share/gconf/kde-plasma.mandatory.path
LOGNAME      : xxx
DEFAULTS_PATH      : /usr/share/gconf/kde-plasma.default.path
WINDOWPATH      : 7
GTK2_RC_FILES      : /home/xxx/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
PATH      : /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
XCURSOR_THEME      : ComixCursors-Opaque-Orange-Regular-Slim
DISPLAY      : :0
LANG      : en_US.UTF-8
SSH_AUTH_SOCK      : /tmp/ssh-VRssCahl1342/agent.1342
SHELL      : /bin/bash
GPG_AGENT_INFO      : /tmp/gpg-OGgoIf/S.gpg-agent:1397:1
PWD      : /home/xxx
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS      : /etc/xdg/xdg-kde-plasma:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS      : /usr/share/kde-plasma:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
QT_PLUGIN_PATH      : /home/xxx/.kde/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/
KDE_SESSION_UID      : 1000
KDE_MULTIHEAD      : false
SESSION_MANAGER      : local/xxx-netbook:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1711,unix/xxx-netbook:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1711
LANGUAGE

Devices
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Processor
---------

-Processors-
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570   @ 1.66GHz      : 1000.00MHz
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570   @ 1.66GHz      : 1000.00MHz
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570   @ 1.66GHz      : 1000.00MHz
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570   @ 1.66GHz      : 1000.00MHz

Memory
------

-Memory-
Total Memory      : 2052116 kB
Free Memory      : 752840 kB
Buffers      : 82056 kB
Cached      : 684420 kB
Cached Swap      : 0 kB
Active      : 620412 kB
Inactive      : 598180 kB
Active(anon)      : 455372 kB
Inactive(anon)      : 77664 kB
Active(file)      : 165040 kB
Inactive(file)      : 520516 kB
Unevictable      : 0 kB
Mlocked      : 0 kB
High Memory      : 1178120 kB
Free High Memory      : 35212 kB
Low Memory      : 873996 kB
Free Low Memory      : 717628 kB
Virtual Memory      : 2085884 kB
Free Virtual Memory      : 2085884 kB
Dirty      : 152 kB
Writeback      : 0 kB
AnonPages      : 452312 kB
Mapped      : 174976 kB
Shmem      : 80924 kB
Slab      : 53476 kB
SReclaimable      : 33784 kB
SUnreclaim      : 19692 kB
KernelStack      : 3264 kB
PageTables      : 9956 kB
NFS_Unstable      : 0 kB
Bounce      : 0 kB
WritebackTmp      : 0 kB
CommitLimit      : 3111940 kB
Committed_AS      : 2256980 kB
VmallocTotal      : 122880 kB
VmallocUsed      : 9188 kB
VmallocChunk      : 113232 kB
HardwareCorrupted      : 0 kB
AnonHugePages      : 0 kB
HugePages_Total      : 0
HugePages_Free      : 0
HugePages_Rsvd      : 0
HugePages_Surp      : 0
Hugepagesize      : 4096 kB
DirectMap4k      : 16376 kB
DirectMap4M      : 892928 kB

PCI Devices
-----------

-PCI Devices-
Host bridge      : Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02)
VGA compatible controller      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Display controller      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Audio device      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
PCI bridge      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
USB controller      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
PCI bridge      : Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
ISA bridge      : Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
SATA controller      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Ethernet controller      : Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
Network controller      : Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

Input Devices
-------------

-Input Devices-
 Lid Switch
 Sleep Button
 Power Button
 Power Button
 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
 Video Bus
 PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE
 USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam
 HDA Intel Headphone
 Eee PC WMI hotkeys
 ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad

Storage
-------

-SCSI Disks-
ATA WDC WD2500BPVT-8

DMI
---

-BIOS-
Date      : 08/30/2011
Vendor      : American Megatrends Inc. (www.ami.com)
Version      : 1401
-Board-
Name      : 1015PE
Vendor      : ASUSTeK Computer INC. (SEAGATE, www.seagate.com)

Resources
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-I/O Ports-
<tt>0000-0cf7 </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>  0000-001f </tt>      : dma1
<tt>  0020-0021 </tt>      : pic1
<tt>  0040-0043 </tt>      : timer0
<tt>  0050-0053 </tt>      : timer1
<tt>  0060-0060 </tt>      : keyboard
<tt>  0062-0062 </tt>      : EC data
<tt>  0064-0064 </tt>      : keyboard
<tt>  0066-0066 </tt>      : EC cmd
<tt>  0070-0071 </tt>      : rtc0
<tt>  0080-008f </tt>      : dma page reg
<tt>  00a0-00a1 </tt>      : pic2
<tt>  00c0-00df </tt>      : dma2
<tt>  00f0-00ff </tt>      : fpu
<tt>  025c-025f </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>  0380-0383 </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>  0400-041f </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>  0480-04bf </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>  04d0-04d1 </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>  0800-087f </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>    0800-0803 </tt>      : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
<tt>    0804-0805 </tt>      : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
<tt>    0808-080b </tt>      : ACPI PM_TMR
<tt>    0810-0815 </tt>      : ACPI CPU throttle
<tt>    0820-0820 </tt>      : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
<tt>    0828-082f </tt>      : ACPI GPE0_BLK
<tt>0cf8-0cff </tt>      : PCI conf1
<tt>0d00-ffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>  1000-1fff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt>  2000-2fff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:04
<tt>  c800-c81f </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
<tt>    c800-c81f </tt>      : ahci
<tt>  c880-c883 </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
<tt>    c880-c883 </tt>      : ahci
<tt>  cc00-cc07 </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
<tt>    cc00-cc07 </tt>      : ahci
<tt>  d000-d003 </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
<tt>    d000-d003 </tt>      : ahci
<tt>  d080-d087 </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
<tt>    d080-d087 </tt>      : ahci
<tt>  d400-d41f </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt>    d400-d41f </tt>      : uhci_hcd
<tt>  d480-d49f </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt>    d480-d49f </tt>      : uhci_hcd
<tt>  d800-d81f </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt>    d800-d81f </tt>      : uhci_hcd
<tt>  d880-d89f </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
<tt>    d880-d89f </tt>      : uhci_hcd
<tt>  dc00-dc07 </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt>  e000-efff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt>    ec00-ec7f </tt>      : Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
<tt>      ec00-ec7f </tt>      : Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
-Memory-
<tt>00000000-0000ffff </tt>      : reserved
<tt>00010000-0009fbff </tt>      : System RAM
<tt>0009fc00-0009ffff </tt>      : reserved
<tt>000a0000-000bffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>  000a0000-000bffff </tt>      : Video RAM area
<tt>000c0000-000c7fff </tt>      : Video ROM
<tt>000d0000-000dffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>000e0000-000fffff </tt>      : reserved
<tt>  000f0000-000fffff </tt>      : System ROM
<tt>00100000-7f67ffff </tt>      : System RAM
<tt>  01000000-0157e703 </tt>      : Kernel code
<tt>  0157e704-018342ff </tt>      : Kernel data
<tt>  018ed000-019c3fff </tt>      : Kernel bss
<tt>7f680000-7f68dfff </tt>      : ACPI Tables
<tt>7f68e000-7f6cffff </tt>      : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
<tt>7f6d0000-fed8ffff </tt>      : reserved
<tt>  7f700000-fed8ffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:00
<tt>    80000000-801fffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt>    80200000-803fffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:04
<tt>    80400000-805fffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:04
<tt>    80600000-80600fff </tt>      : Intel Flush Page
<tt>    80604000-80607fff </tt>      : i915 MCHBAR
<tt>    d0000000-dfffffff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt>    e0000000-efffffff </tt>      : PCI MMCONFIG 0000 [bus 00-ff]
<tt>      e0000000-efffffff </tt>      : pnp 00:0b
<tt>    f0000000-f6ffffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt>    f7cf7800-f7cf7bff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
<tt>      f7cf7800-f7cf7bff </tt>      : ahci
<tt>    f7cf7c00-f7cf7fff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
<tt>      f7cf7c00-f7cf7fff </tt>      : ehci_hcd
<tt>    f7cf8000-f7cfbfff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
<tt>      f7cf8000-f7cfbfff </tt>      : ICH HD audio
<tt>    f7d00000-f7dfffff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt>    f7e00000-f7e7ffff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<tt>    f7e80000-f7efffff </tt>      : Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
<tt>    f7f00000-f7ffffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt>      f7fc0000-f7ffffff </tt>      : Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
<tt>        f7fc0000-f7ffffff </tt>      : Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
<tt>    f8000000-fbffffff </tt>      : PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt>      fbffc000-fbffffff </tt>      : Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
<tt>    fec00000-fec003ff </tt>      : IOAPIC 0
<tt>    fed00000-fed003ff </tt>      : HPET 0
<tt>    fed14000-fed19fff </tt>      : pnp 00:01
<tt>    fed1c000-fed1ffff </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>    fed20000-fed3ffff </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>    fed50000-fed8ffff </tt>      : pnp 00:08
<tt>fed90000-fed93fff </tt>      : pnp 00:01
<tt>fee00000-fee00fff </tt>      : Local APIC
<tt>  fee00000-fee00fff </tt>      : reserved
<tt>    fee00000-fee00fff </tt>      : pnp 00:0a
<tt>ffb00000-ffbfffff </tt>      : pnp 00:08
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[JoeInMN]

Additional manifestations of conflicting time settings:

Say the actual current time here is 20:27 CDT on March 17. TIme zones in both the panel clock and System Settings are set to America/Chicago.

Panel clock and popup calendar are off, five hours ahead; reading 01:27 on March 18.

An edited file saved at this instant will show "Modified: Yesterday 20:27" in its Properties. This is strange, because while the fie system apparently thinks the (wrong) time shown by the panel clock is the correct time, it seems to have recorded the Save action as having occurred at the actual correct time, leading it to claim the file was saved five hours ago. Same thing if I set the clock to the correct time; the Properties for a file saved now will show it being Modified five hours earlier today. However, the other file saved before the clock adjustment will still show the same Modified time and date as before, though now the elapsed time since the save will be correct.

The Stellarium astronomy program's clock shows the same wrong time as the panel clock, but seems to display the sky as it would appear at the correct time. Setting the planetarium clock back to the correct time causes the sky to shift accordingly, showing conditions five hours earlier than they should be. If I now set the panel clock to the correct time and start Stellarium again, it is the same; Stellarium's clock agrees with the panel clock, but the sky is wrong as before. The observing location and everything is set up as it should be there; time zone is the system default.

It seems as though two sources of clock information are somehow being used at the same time for different things. It's all very confusing. Really need to solve this.

[JoeInMN]

Trying the fix posted here for Mint 13/14:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=128920&p=700388

Did the terminal procedure (though I just opened the terminal from the menu and did sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata rather than sudo su etc.), rebooted (doing the bootup clock settings again), did the terminal thing again for the heck of it. Time settings appear to be correct now; Stellarium clock and sky agree; file properties seem OK. The question now is whether this will all persist. Hoping so.

[anandrkris]

Does this tell anything? Time in dmesg seem to be fine. Only KDE is doing something wierd? I wish someone looks into this. I reckon it is a Mint specific issue but anyways logged issue in KDE tracker.

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anand@AnandLaptop /var/log $ dmesg | grep clock
[    0.000000] hpet clockevent registered
[    0.212486] Switching to clocksource hpet
[    1.371085] rtc_cmos 00:04: setting system clock to [b]2013-03-20 18:42:59[/b] UTC (1363804979)
[    1.899723] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2294.786 MHz
[    1.899731] Switching to clocksource tsc
anand@AnandLaptop /var/log $ date
Wed Mar 20 [b]16:06:35[/b] UTC 2013
anand@AnandLaptop /var/log $ uptime
 16:07:42 up  2:54,  2 users,  load average: 0.14, 0.17, 0.41


[JoeInMN]

My machine seems to be keeping time normally now. The hardware clock at bootup still shows UTC, but I'm pretty sure it's supposed to, and the time zone settings are applied to that for the software timekeeping (someone correct me if I'm wrong, which is not entirely unlikely). The post I linked to above seems to apply to Mint 13/14 in general and not just to KDE.

Summing up what (appears to have) worked for me:

Entered in terminal:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Entered password; used the keyboard to pick the options on the ensuing text screen.

Restarted, saw things looking normal, did it again just for giggles. It has held up through a couple of restarts and suspend/resumes, so it's looking good so far.

[JoeInMN]

HOWEVER... I just tried again to enable Time and Date to automatically set the clock from the internet, and it not only complained that it could not find the server, but the clock simultaneously went wrong again. !@#$, %@#! and &%#@. I redid the fix above, and will avoid attempting the automatic setting for a few days, and see what happens. I do not remember any of this ever having been a problem before.

[anandrkris]

Thanks Joel. It worked! I did not try earlier as I was not sure whether it will work in KDE.

[vince.p]

Hi JoeInMN, Thanks for your solution to this problem, it worked like a charm for me. I've had this happen after I upgraded KDE 4.8 to 4.10 on Mint 13. One small hangup though. I notice that when I assign a time to an event or todo, it shows up as an hour earlier then the time I've given it. But hey, I guess this is something I can live with. This whole time resetting problem appears to be peculiar to KDE 4.10 as I've got various other OS's in virtual box and they all keep the correct time. I've also got Mint 14 KDE 4.9 on a netbook and it works just fine. Go figure.

Once again, many thanks.
Vince