Kubuntu clock display often shows wrong Timezone

Question

This is sort of related to, but not quite the same as: Kubuntu 14.04 clock showing only UTC despite correct timezone

I have a laptop that only runs Kubuntu, I have the system clock set to use UTC, and the local Time Zone set to US NYC, which is the correct wat to have the system set up as I understand it. In the clock display settings window, I have the clock set to show 'local' time. However for some reason my clock often will display UTC instead of local time. If I go into the display settings window, I find that everything is still set right, and when I exit from the settings window the clock will show local time like it should...

This is doesn't seem to hurt anything but it is a pity to keep having to fix it...

One of the comments in the above mentioned article suggested grepping for "UTC" in the home directory, and finding it in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc. I did this and found

[Containments][1][Applets][7][Configuration]
announceInterval=0
calendarType=-1
dateStyle=2
defaultTimezone=Local
displayEvents=false
displayHolidays=true
holidaysRegions=us_en-us
holidaysRegionsDaysOff=us_en-us
plainClockColor=0,0,0
plainClockDrawShadow=true
plainClockFont=Ubuntu,20,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
showSeconds=false
showTimezone=true
**timeZones=UTC
timezone=Local**
useCustomColor=true
useCustomShadowColor=false

I haven't tried messing with this - should I?

Any suggestions to make my clock display always show local time?

Answer 1

to edit the time open a terminal and type dpkg-reconfigure tzdata this will allow you to set the timezone and save it, making sure to always show local time