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date and time settings not matching location

Asked by Siobhan Houlihan

Hello,

I can't figure out how to properly set the date and time. When I go to manually change it, it remains in my system time, so the sun rises at 14:00 hours or something else far off if i'm in any other country than my own.

I feel like it has only just started doing this. Is there any way to get the time to match the location's time?

Thanks

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gzotti (georg-zotti) said : 		#1

Time is always in your system's time zone, unless you use the time zone plugin to configure something else.
This has been like this for years.

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Siobhan Houlihan (syoban) said : 		#2

OK so I googled how to use the plugin, which I wasn't aware existed, and I figured out how to match the time and location. Thanks for pointing it out.

It seems a bit unintuitive and difficult to use just to predict what the sky looks like in another country, but it seems it's always been like that.