Incorrect date in GNOME

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi, ALL,
I have an incorrect time displayed in GNOME4.

The GNOME Settings panel for the "Date&Time" shows CDT (Chicago) United States. But the time is off by 1 hour and I am currently in Alabama. (so the time zone is correct).

Running "date" in a Terminal shows the same off-by-1hour timestamo.

Did I chose the wrong timezone on install?

Thank you.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21657

Is the problem that your system time is incorrect by one hour, or that your UTC time is correct and that your local time is wrong? Please run date; date -u, then post the results immediately after, so that we can use the forum's clock (which we presume is correct) to check your local clock.

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi,

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21657

My system clock read Thu Apr 18 14:54:26 UTC 2024 when I made my prior post, which aligns with the shown timestamp on my post. Your post appears to be 58 minutes off. You showed Thu Apr 18 04:34:11 PM UTC 2024, but your post is timestamped 3:46 pm in GMT. The difference between CDT and UTC is currently 5 hours, so I think your timezone is right and your system clock is wrong. Is NTP working properly? Does your system keep time properly across reboots?

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3612

Hi,
How do I check the NTP?

Thank you.