Why are file timestamps 5 hours diff. from taskbar clock?

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My Taskbar clock has the correct time right now (8:50) but when I create a file (either in Dolphin or through any application) the time stamp says 1:50pm! What could be causing this?

Aren’t they supposed to get the time from the same spot?

NOTE: When I am in Konsole and check with “ls -l” the time is correct! It’s in Dolphin that it’s incorrect! What could cause this?

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In further research, I found this problem:

# hwclock
Fri 07 Nov 2008 09:07:02 AM EST -0.386418 seconds
# date
Fri Nov 7 09:07:07 EST 2008
# date -u
Fri Nov 7 14:07:12 UTC 2008

Notice the 5-hour difference on “date -u”!! How do I fix this?

Will going into “YAST->etc/sys-config Editor->System->Environment->HWCLOCK” and changing it from “-u” to “–localtime” fix the problem? Does it require a restart after that? Also, is it two dashes before “localtime”?

(NOTE: I only have OpenSUSE 11.0 on this comp, no other OS)

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Hi
Sounds like the difference between your localtime and UTC time, what is
the output from the following one line command;


/sbin/hwclock && date && date -u && touch test && ls -la test

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
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**Fri 07 Nov 2008 09:15:55 AM EST  -0.654119 seconds
Fri Nov  7 09:15:54 EST 2008
Fri Nov  7 14:15:54 UTC 2008**

How do I fix this?

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Hi
Yes it should be set to --localtime. No the UTC time difference is
correct… (date -u) I also have systohc set to yes.

I also use ntp, you may wish to investigate that and use some public
servers.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 20:17, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.11, 0.08
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Thanks! I assume it needs a restart to take effect? (I did the change and got no difference so far)

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Hi
Probably best to… will need to reload modules.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 20:58, 2 users, load average: 0.38, 0.35, 0.28
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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As you live in EST and have the correct time in your GUI.
And as asking the time in UTC gives a 5 hour difference (isn’t that normal?).
The only strange thing is that Dolphin used UTC instead of EST. IMHO that could have two explanations:
a. you run Dolphin from another user, that is defined as living in UTC. or
b. Dolphin shows times always as UTC (I do not use Dolphin, so I am guessing), or can be configured to use it’s own timezone independent from the environment it runs in.

My conclusion: when you just start Dolphin from your normal GUI b. must be the case. Look for some configuration of Dolphin about timezone.

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Not sure as I don’t use KDE 4… but from what I’ve been reading there seems to be a bug in Dophin when using KDE 4.0.
Should be fixed by now with KDE 4.1.x as I haven’t seen this reported much lately.

Just a thought…