Time is off at every boot

[molecule-eye]

I unchecked all timezones from the clock, then set the correct time zone, then ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata". Everything seems to be working. Clock used to reset upon resume but not anymore, and "date" is displaying the correct time. Thanks SteveRiley (and comment 13)!

[kubicle]

The new bishop of Rome.

Well, aren't they expected to perform miracles...I'm sure turning day into night and night into day counts.

[SteveRiley]

Same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Rome

[Fintan]

You meant Pope?

[Teunis]

The new bishop of Rome.

[SteveRiley]

Cosmic rays.

[Fintan]

Thanks Steve. That did it. Wonder what caused this??

[SteveRiley]

The hardware clock is what's set in your firmware (BIOS or UEFI). Curiously, in fiddling around with KDE's time zone stuff, I managed to completely hose what the operating system was saying. It told me that both London (UTC) and Los Angeles (what I have to pick for Seattle) were the same!

So first I deselected all time zones with a check mark in Digital Clock Settings | Time Zones. Then I rebooted my computer and went to the firmware settings. I confirmed that the time there (that's the "hardware clock") was set to UTC. Then I booted Kubuntu, but didn't log in when LightDM started. Instead, I went to a TTY and ran

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and reselected my local time zone. Then I typed

date

to verify all was proper. I rebooted once more, and this time, logged into the desktop. Now the clock is correct.

Seems like there's some overall wonkiness that needs looked at here...

[Fintan]

Just win 7

[dmeyer]

Thanks. No I only have my time zone active.

Do you dual boot with any other distros or OSs? If yes, name then please.

[Fintan]

Thanks. No I only have my time zone active.

[HalationEffect]

Please enlighten me. What do you mean by that?

If you have more than one time zone ticked (e.g. whatever your local time zone is + UTC), then moving your mouse cursor over the system clock and then rolling the mouse wheel will switch between them.

[Fintan]

Have you tried scrolling over the clock?

Please enlighten me. What do you mean by that?

[dmeyer]

Have you tried scrolling over the clock? We discovered this fixes 90% of clock related issues in Kubuntu.

[Fintan]

I think that should be europe.pool.ntp.org.

Is your hardware clock still set to the correct UTC

?

It is europe.pool.ntp.org, I was just too lazy to type the .org here

No, UTC is turned off (I always do that first)

I still get the error when changing time server in

kdesudo systemsettings