Questions tagged [timezone]
Time zones are areas on Earth that have the same time. Use this tag if you have problems setting up your `timezone` in Ubuntu.
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Clock resets To UTC on Reboot
I've newly installed Ubuntu 18.04.3 on two hosts, desktop on one, server on another. The timezone on the server resets to UTC on each boot.
# cat /etc/timezone
America/Los_Angeles
# ls -la /etc/...
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How to make Kubuntu display date and time in English?
I am using Kubuntu 18.04 and it seems that despite having my whole system being setup in English, the date and time display (like days) is sometimes displayed in French, it seems related to the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Wrong UTC time
On my Ubuntu server, the time should be UTC+3, but the UTC time zone is 3 hours ahead, and whenever I enter my own time zone, date showing 3+3 6 hours ahead in total. So the UTC timezone is showing ...
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How can I change the timezone on a read only operating system protected by overlayroot?
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 installation mounted using overlayroot as a read only partition.
I also have a read write partition on the same drive.
I need to be able to change the timezone setting of the PC ...
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Why it is impossible to type location in Ubuntu's "Time & Date" in Cyrillic script?
Why is it impossible to type (or find) the Russian city's name (e.g.: Moscow, Yekaterinburg) in All Settings > Time & Date > Clock > Choose Locations of Ubuntu 14.04.5 using Cyrillic ...
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hwclock and sysclock are different
My Ubuntu 14.04 system is out of sync when I compare date and hwclock.
Hwclock is simply 3 hours behind the system clock. As I live in GMT+3 time zone. Sample output:
$ date
Sat Nov 26 13:18:40 +...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - Time shown by clock widget in the task bar is incorrect
I have already manually setup some symlinks that should guarantee system time to be according to the locale I want, namely
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern /etc/localtime
ln -sf /usr/share/...
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Xubuntu - wrong time displayed
I'm at my wits' end. Using Xubuntu 16.04 and all I want is getting the correct time displayed in my top right corner.
But no matter what I do, I keep getting it wrong. I have tried both 'Datetime' ...
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Why hwclock is neither UTC nor local?
$ timedatectl
Local time: Fri 2015-01-30 11:04:51 CET correct UTC+1
Universal time: Fri 2015-01-30 10:04:51 UTC correct UTC
Timezone: Europe/Budapest (CET, +0100) ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Auto Timezone is wrong
My location service setting is on, and I can get my correct location on Google Maps.
But when I turn on auto timezone, it will set the timezone from PST to MST, and I am not even near any MST region.
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20.04 MATE desktop - clock in panel occasionally shows UTC
Testing a newly upgraded Ubuntu 20.04 system with the MATE desktop installed.
The panel clock normally shows the desired US Central Time. But every now and then it sneakily reverts to UTC - This ...
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Can I display UTC offset rather than local offset in the desktop calendar applet?
I have configured some world clocks in the Gnome Clocks application, and they appear on the Ubuntu desktop calendar as expected, see below. (I don't know the correct name for the "desktop ...
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Incorrect time shown in 20.04
I see that the time in my Ubuntu 20.04 (12:40 PM) is different from my wall clock and also the www.timeanddate.com web site (12:20 PM). As you can see int he picture, the time zones are correct. How ...
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crontab with per-user timezones
Following up on How do you set the timezone for crontab?, where CentOS 7 distro with cronie 1.4 has CRON_TZ environment variable, but Ubuntu 20.04 LTS' crontab(5) manpage still doesn't have CRON_TZ. ...
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18.04 NVIDIA drivers repeatedly uninstalls in dual boot system after running Windows
I have a really weird situation on a dual boot (Windows 10 & Ubuntu 18.04) system.
Sometimes when I make changes in Windows then return to Ubuntu, I find the graphic card (a Titan GTX) is ...
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Enable/disable Daylight Savings Time through command line
Note: By "Disable" daylight savings time, I mean for the system clock to ignore any time changes for daylight savings time (ie, if DST is disabled, then the clock will not "spring forward" an hour in ...
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Time Zone shows (null) with UTC+0 offsets on all timezones
I'm new to Linux and I'm having an issue with my clock showing the wrong time. When I pull up the Date & Time setting, my Time Zone shows
(null) (Los Angeles, United States)
If I turn off ...
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Time Zones: TZ vs tzselect vs timedatectl
I have a software package that (I am told) has to read the TZ environment variable, and if that variable is not set it can cause dates/times to be incorrect. Not sure if it is doing its own offset ...
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Problems installing ubuntu 18.04
I have an USB Ubuntu 18.04 bootable and trying to install Ubuntu on my laptop. I have try several ways of installation but always getting errors during installation. During the installation, so many ...
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Automatic timezone in Xubuntu (xfce + geoclue)
Is there any way to set system timezone automatically in Xubuntu 18.04? I see that geoclue-2.0 is installed in my system and seem to be properly configured, but there is no "Automatic" option in Date/...
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Is there any possible way I can prompt the user to select a timezone just like in plain Ubuntu in a customized ISO?
Currently I provide a modified ISO to users and it has many configurations in ks.cfg for configuration post installation of OS. The users are in different timezones. Till now there is no manual ...
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Missing timezones. Can't set several cities
I want to add several cities to the time menu that appears when you click the clock in the menu bar.
Auckland (New Zealand) and Port Lewis (Mauritius) are not in the list of available cities. I have ...
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Timezone trouble in MariaDB-10.0
I'm currently running in a problem while using mariadb-10.0. After importing my local times using mysql_tzinfo_to_sql (as described here) and adding default_time_zone = UTC to the [mysqld] section of ...
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Local time in RCS is set to GMT not PST
I fear this question will be booted as off-topic, but since there appears to be no RCS forum, I'll try it anyway. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and use RCS. According to System-settings -> ...
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timedatectl or dpkg-reconfigure tzdata in 16.04
I've been using the following script to set Ubuntu 14.04 servers to UTC timezone:
echo "Etc/UTC" > /etc/timezone
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
echo UTC=yes >> /etc/...
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Ubuntu systemd cpu usage 100% timezone
We found CPU usage of 99% by systemd on Ubuntu 22.04.1. It has something to do with the daylight-saving time switch.
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Ubuntu 22.04.4 changing time zones stopped working
I've recently started having some weird problems with time zones on my laptop, despite the fact that it used to work just fine. First, at some point it stopped automatically changing time zone when I ...
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Some recurring Lightning entries are off by an hour next week
I just opened my calendar for a few weeks from now (Oct 30 - Nov 5), and some (but not all) of my recurring meetings from my Outlook calendar are off by an hour. My guess is that it has something to ...
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What organization(s) manage the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file?
I've looked on several systems and seen these lines
111 # Allow client to pass locale environment variables
112 AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
I'd like to get this ...
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Time incorrect after suspending
Before I close the lid of the Ubuntu 23.04 laptop, for example the time is 12:34. When I open the lid, the time becomes X hours faster than the correct time.
My timezone is UTC+X and I ran timedatectl ...
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How do you prevent openvpn clients from changing the system clock?
I'm using state based routing using iptables and a single user on a shared machine sometimes uses a VPN to get resources not available in our physical location. However, this is very annoying because, ...
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Set MySQL default-time-zone to Europe/Berlin results to MySQL crash
I'm running a VPS with Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0 x86_64) and MySQL 5.7.40.
Until now I always took the following steps to setup the right time zone for MySQL on a new server:
First: sudo ...
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Where are time zone zic source files managed?
There are numerous errors in the historical transitions in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Asuncion tz file.
Transitions are incorrectly computed from around 2006 forward through 2038 as happening in ...
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Setting timezone Interactively in installation via subiquity
Is there a way to select timezone interactively in installation via subiquity?
I'm aware of 'interactive-sections' under which we can set options to select locale and keyboard layouts during setup. ...
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Ubuntu 22 Display localtime instead of universal time
I want to display local timezone instead of Universal time in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. It also displays same UTC +00 in all regional timezone. I did set time timezone manually nothing works.
sudo ...
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timedatectl not returning the right info
I have 2 servers running the exact same Ubuntu and kernel versions. Both have identical HW and have been booted with the same USB drive.
user@server1:~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
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zone.tab file has disappeared causing the timezone to default to UTC
For whatever reason, the time on my Xubuntu 21.04 system has gone all awry and has defaulted to UTC. I cannot change the time as the time-admin program refuses to load with this error:
** (time-admin:...
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Time Zone changed incorrectly on random boots
A few days ago my system time zone started to be changed **incorrectly on random boots, from:
BST (London, United Kingdom)
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GMT (Accra, Ghana)
I can correct this with:
$ timedatectl set-timezone ...
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Installed PHP I need to Get write the timezone
I have a problem regarding the timezone in Ubuntu. It's asking for the timezone and I don't know what to do.
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Time is behind by an hour even though TZ is correctly set
I have an Ubuntu 18 server VM running in ESXI. The timezone is set correctly but the time is still behind by an hour.
root@devserver:~# timedatectl
Local time: Thu 2020-03-19 ...
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xfce: How to get bottom panel (back). How to update time in the upper right corner
Somehow the bottom panel isn't switched on by default. I am talking about the one you see in following picture (mouse cursor is hovering right above):
I've switched the time zone. However, the time ...
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Ubuntu Core 16 - How to change time zone persistent?
to set the time zone I tried following:
auser@localhost:~$ sudo timedatectl
Local time: Fri 2019-05-17 06:46:14 UTC
Universal time: Fri 2019-05-17 06:46:14 UTC
RTC time: Fri 2019-05-...
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Timezones Problems
I have an issue with my time zone, when i use this command i can see the date:
$ timedatectl
and it shows me the next message:
Local time: Wed 2018-06-06 11:02:25 -04
Universal time: Wed 2018-06-...
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Timezone incorrect
I've freshly installed a 16.04 instance in VMWare, which sadly automatically configures the installation process for me. Now I try to repair what it has broken.
One of the steps is to get ntp to work ...
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Just downloaded Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 - Audio Issues STILL NO SOLUTION
I just downloaded Ubuntu alongside Windows 10. I don't have these problems while using Ubuntu when I boot into Windows 10, suddenly my speakers are popping when they are initialized.
HP dvt-7000 ...
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How to manually update time in time zone?
There was a time change in Europe (-1h) but my system didn't change it :( What can I do? My time zone is correct (checked with sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata).
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timezone change resets after reboot ubuntu 11.10
I am trying to change my timezone from HKT to JST or any other timezone for that using the most commonly used command that I can find sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata.
This successfully changes the ...
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Is it possible to create your own timezone file?
With the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" is it possible to change the used timezone.
The choice is from the files in the directory /usr/share/timezone/Etc.
This directory contains ...
