Date and Time wrong [after suspend to RAM?]

[Feathers McGraw]

My girlfriend also uses Kubuntu on her laptop .

She has been complaining recently that the time on her panel is wrong.

I've reset it to the correct time on a few occasions, but after a few days... back to the wrong time.

When it's wrong, it's always out by an hour (I'm guessing it's because of the daylight savings time / British summer time thing).

I have a suspicion that it goes wrong after she shuts the lid to suspend to RAM, and then lets the battery run out. Assuming Kubuntu then looks up the time online when it turns back on, this must be where the problem is. I've tried setting the time to auto update to BST but that sets the time to 1hr out.

I've tried the obvious solution of "don't let the battery run down" but it's not going too well, so if there's a technical solution that would be ideal.

Feathers

[Teunis]

Have you (she) already tried to use the mouse scroll wheel while over the clock?
Depending on the set-up it can change between UTC and local time.

To set the clock you can use this command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Remember you use the Tab and cursor keys to navigate the menu.

[Feathers McGraw]

Pah!

I can't believe how simple that was. Scrolling up over the time did the job.

Thanks!