I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time. My system time (/etc/localtime) is on Vancouver time, but no
matter what I do to try to change the timezone on that widget, it stays
stuck on Chicago time.If I rightclick the widget and go to timezone, it
says I am on Vancouver time ( the blue marker that is supposed to tell
me the time zone is on Vancouver, but the time is still displayed as
Chicago time.
Mageia 9 uptodate. Plasma.






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William Unruh wrote:

I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time.

Mageia is systemd.

You can use timedatectl.

I don't know what's up w/ your GUI.

I'm not sure, but it is probably:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Vancouver

I don't have a Mageia up right now, but it probably also has a tzselect
gizmo.

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:24:56 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:

William Unruh wrote:

I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time.

Mageia is systemd.

You can use timedatectl.

I don't know what's up w/ your GUI.

I'm not sure, but it is probably:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Vancouver

I don't have a Mageia up right now, but it probably also has a tzselect gizmo.

bin]$ man timedatectl
timedatectl list-timezones |grep Canada
Canada/Atlantic
Canada/Central
Canada/Eastern
Canada/Mountain
Canada/Newfoundland
Canada/Pacific
Canada/Saskatchewan
Canada/Yukon

Your system and desktop may have a much more extensive
set of choices.

Cheers!

jim b.

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On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:47:04 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time. My system time (/etc/localtime) is on Vancouver time, but no
matter what I do to try to change the timezone on that widget, it stays
stuck on Chicago time.If I rightclick the widget and go to timezone, it
says I am on Vancouver time ( the blue marker that is supposed to tell
me the time zone is on Vancouver, but the time is still displayed as
Chicago time.
Mageia 9 uptodate. Plasma.

Plasma and Gnome both like to override system settings.

In KDE Plasma, run systemsettings. Under Personalization select Regional Settings. Within
that there are two settings. Region and Language allow you to select how the date and time
are displayed. Date & Time settings has two tabs. The first allows to to correct the actual time
and date while the Time Zone setting is where you should be slecting Vancouver.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Jim wrote:

On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:24:56 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:

William Unruh wrote:

I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time.

Mageia is systemd.

You can use timedatectl.

I don't know what's up w/ your GUI.

I'm not sure, but it is probably:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Vancouver

I don't have a Mageia up right now, but it probably also has a tzselect
gizmo.

bin]$ man timedatectl
timedatectl list-timezones |grep Canada
Canada/Atlantic
Canada/Central
Canada/Eastern
Canada/Mountain
Canada/Newfoundland
Canada/Pacific
Canada/Saskatchewan
Canada/Yukon

Your system and desktop may have a much more extensive
set of choices.

Oh; Vancouver, BC, .ca

I was thinking Vancouver, WA, .us

In any case, they are both on Pacific time, UTC-8.


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On 2026-02-10, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:47:04 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time. My system time (/etc/localtime) is on Vancouver time, but no
matter what I do to try to change the timezone on that widget, it stays
stuck on Chicago time.If I rightclick the widget and go to timezone, it
says I am on Vancouver time ( the blue marker that is supposed to tell
me the time zone is on Vancouver, but the time is still displayed as
Chicago time.
Mageia 9 uptodate. Plasma.

Plasma and Gnome both like to override system settings.

In KDE Plasma, run systemsettings. Under Personalization select Regional Settings. Within
that there are two settings. Region and Language allow you to select how the date and time
are displayed. Date & Time settings has two tabs. The first allows to to correct the actual time
and date while the Time Zone setting is where you should be slecting Vancouver.

That did not work. It is the same thing what right click on the widget

Adjust Time and Date gives you. It shows the correct Vancouvr analog

clock time and says the time is Vancouver time, but the widget is still
stuck on Chicago time.
I finally gave up trying to figure out what is going wrong, removed the
widget and then reinstalled it, and now the system uses Vancouver time.
I have not tried to change it to see if it is now stuck on Vancouver
time. But on my next trip I guess I will find out.



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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:33:28 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: <snip>

That did not work. It is the same thing what right click on the widget ->Adjust Time and Date gives you. It shows the correct Vancouvr analog
clock time and says the time is Vancouver time, but the widget is still
stuck on Chicago time.
I finally gave up trying to figure out what is going wrong, removed the widget and then reinstalled it, and now the system uses Vancouver time.
I have not tried to change it to see if it is now stuck on Vancouver
time. But on my next trip I guess I will find out.

While it's too late to confirm due to the reinstall, failing to save the changes properly
would most likely have been from using "su" instead of "su -", leading to root owned
files in ~/.config or elsewhere in /home.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 2026-02-12, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:33:28 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
<snip>

That did not work. It is the same thing what right click on the widget

Adjust Time and Date gives you. It shows the correct Vancouvr analog

clock time and says the time is Vancouver time, but the widget is still
stuck on Chicago time.
I finally gave up trying to figure out what is going wrong, removed the
widget and then reinstalled it, and now the system uses Vancouver time.
I have not tried to change it to see if it is now stuck on Vancouver
time. But on my next trip I guess I will find out.

While it's too late to confirm due to the reinstall, failing to save the changes properly
would most likely have been from using "su" instead of "su -", leading to root owned
files in ~/.config or elsewhere in /home.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Well, a search for root owned files in my home dir gave none.
Now it might be that removing the old widget and installing the new
wiped that root owned file, except I did all the removal and
reinstalling as me, not as root, and that should not have allowed removal
of a root owned file.

Note it was not a mageia reinstall but a removal of the DateTime widget
from the bar, and the installation of the DateTime widget to the bar. No
root involvement at all

Maybe what I call the bar is called the panel in KDE speak.


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On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:46:19 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: <snip>

Well, a search for root owned files in my home dir gave none.
Now it might be that removing the old widget and installing the new
wiped that root owned file, except I did all the removal and
reinstalling as me, not as root, and that should not have allowed removal
of a root owned file.

Note it was not a mageia reinstall but a removal of the DateTime widget
from the bar, and the installation of the DateTime widget to the bar. No
root involvement at all

I thought you were talking about a Mageia reinstall.

Maybe what I call the bar is called the panel in KDE speak.

In that case, it was most likely a confguration change in that application between the different
Mageia releases. During upgrade from one release of Mageia to the next, the files in /home
are not modified. That's because each user in /home may have their files in encrypted file systems
which may not be mounted, and may not even be on the same computer (nfs etc.).

If the configuration does change, it's up to the application to handle the modification, so in
this case it would be up to the kde authors of that plugin to handle converting config file formats.

I don't recall any date/time widget problems on upgrade, but it's been long enough since I did
one, I may well have forgotten.

If the problem was still present, the next step in the debugging process after checking for and
fixing any root owned files would have been to create a brand new user, to see if that problem
existed for that user.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 2026-02-13, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:46:19 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
<snip>

Well, a search for root owned files in my home dir gave none.
Now it might be that removing the old widget and installing the new
wiped that root owned file, except I did all the removal and
reinstalling as me, not as root, and that should not have allowed removal
of a root owned file.

Note it was not a mageia reinstall but a removal of the DateTime widget
from the bar, and the installation of the DateTime widget to the bar. No
root involvement at all

I thought you were talking about a Mageia reinstall.

The overall was a Mageia 8-9 upgrade. But the solution was to erase the DateTime widget from the panel bar and then to install it again to the
panel bar, after it had ceased working after Mageia upgrade.

Sorry for the confusion

Maybe what I call the bar is called the panel in KDE speak.

In that case, it was most likely a confguration change in that application between the different
Mageia releases. During upgrade from one release of Mageia to the next, the files in /home
are not modified. That's because each user in /home may have their files in encrypted file systems
which may not be mounted, and may not even be on the same computer (nfs etc.).

If the configuration does change, it's up to the application to handle the modification, so in
this case it would be up to the kde authors of that plugin to handle converting config file formats.

I don't recall any date/time widget problems on upgrade, but it's been long enough since I did
one, I may well have forgotten.

If the problem was still present, the next step in the debugging process after checking for and
fixing any root owned files would have been to create a brand new user, to see if that problem
existed for that user.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 10/2/26 10:47, William Unruh wrote:

I am in Vancouver and the date/time widget refuses to go off Chicago
time. My system time (/etc/localtime) is on Vancouver time, but no
matter what I do to try to change the timezone on that widget, it stays
stuck on Chicago time.If I rightclick the widget and go to timezone, it
says I am on Vancouver time ( the blue marker that is supposed to tell
me the time zone is on Vancouver, but the time is still displayed as
Chicago time.
Mageia 9 uptodate. Plasma.

It's a real jumble
I'm glad you sorted your end
I am yet to get Dolphin icons to display 24 hour time

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Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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