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My panel clock is showing time in UTC. This is recent behavior, and I believe it is a recent regression, but I'm not 100% sure so I'm posing this as a question first.

Here's a screenshot of the clock in the panel, along with the clock settings.

Panel clock in UTC, timezone is correct (PDT)

Here's the output of 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' after taking the settings I had already selected:

Current default time zone: 'America/Los_Angeles'
Local time is now:      Thu Aug 27 11:51:33 PDT 2015.
Universal Time is now:  Thu Aug 27 18:51:33 UTC 2015.

It looks to my like my timezone is set correctly, but my panel clock is not.

Also, to reiterate, this is a new issue; my panel clock had been showing the correct time until this week.

Anyone know how to fix this issue? Is it a known bug?

Edit: I think this screenshot better shows the issue. The clock knows both the correct PST time and the correct UTC time and it knows which one I am. It's just displaying the wrong one.

hover time shown

Cory
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Right click on the widget and select Digital Clock Settings > Time Zones and make a selection in Clock defaults to.

Zanna
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In the end I got desperate and just grepped for UTC in my home directory. So I discovered ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

This config file, for me, contained these two lines:

timezone=UTC
timeZones=UTC

Removing these lines and logging out and back in fixed the problem.

Zanna
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Cory
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This hit me over the weekend - Friday afternoon, it showed the correct time; Monday morning, it showed UTC.

I fixed it by right clicking the time, selecting "Digital Clock Settings", then checking "Show time zone" and clicking "Apply".

The "Show time zone" check box was unchecked when I looked at the settings - I don't know if it was checked before or not.

Kryten
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