Since I've started to use Linux I've been mostly GNOME user, but lately I've been "playing" with KDE. I had 4.5.2 but I downgraded it to 4.4.4 and on openSUSE it's very stable as much as I can say, even though I did encounter some bugs/problems.
Well today I wanted to set my time zone and regional stuff, but I'll tell you - I can't and I don't understand the sanity behind some configuration options. So if you right click on the clock - bottom, wright you have
Digital Clock Settings and
Adjust Date and Time. If I go to option #1 I can set defaults to
local and then if I hover my mouse pointer over the clock it will show local and time of the time zone set to Zagreb/Croatia which both are the same, which is correct.
If I go to option #2 I can't set time zone and I don't know why it defaults to Belgrade which is in Serbia. If in option #1 I set defaults to Europe/Zagreb which is capital of Croatia, when I hover my mouse over the clock it shows Europe/Zagreb and Europe/Belgrade which currently has the same time as Europe/Zagreb.
In order to change my regional settings I have to go to
Configure Desktop -> Regional & Language in which btw you can change your time format from am/pm to 24h system and you can't do that in
Digital Clock Settings and
Adjust Date and Time.
In KDE 4.5.2 I haven't tried all of this, so I'm asking any KDE user of any 4.x.x version to share their expirience, so I and maybe others could understand this.
Mr.Google pointed me to this page;
KDE-Time zone classes and I've been tryin' a little to understand what is written there but somehow tonight it just won't work.
This;
Code:
sudo chown $(id -un):$(id -gn) $(kde4-config --localprefix)
...should fix some broken permissions on ~/.kde4 folder, but of course it doesn't work because most likely this has nothing to do with permissions.
Then I went
here. It's KDE documentation about time zones and it starts like this;
Quote:
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The Earth is round, and it is always half-illuminated by the Sun. However, because the Earth is spinning, the half that is illuminated is always changing. We experience this as the passing of days wherever we are on the Earth's surface. At any given instant, there are places on the Earth passing from the dark half into the illuminated half (which is seen as dawn on the surface). At the same instant, on the opposite side of the Earth, points are passing from the illuminated half into darkness (which is seen as dusk at those locations). So, at any given time, different places on Earth are experiencing different parts of the day. Thus, Solar time is defined locally, so that the clock time at any location describes the part of the day consistently.
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At that point I have decided not to read any more, tonight.
Thank you!
