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VPNs and system time zones

If my computer takes its time from the internet, and the time zone is determined by the IP location, why doesn't using a VPN change the time zone, assuming the VPN server is in a different time zone?
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traceroute / timezone issues

I've had some issues with my windows location reporting as the entrance to some mall in Israel, even though I am in Massachusetts. The traceroute to google has a weird 2nd hop (10.61.22.67) that I can'...
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Why is Windows 11 getting my time zone wrong?

Windows 11 has recently started assigning the wrong time zone to two computers when the option to "set time zone automatically" is enabled. When I disable this option, I can set the correct ...
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How Windows 11 GPS works? Why, if I'm CST, would error "Due to GPS location change, you're Timezone settings have been set to Atlantic Time" error?

I have a full license of Windows 11 that I obtained from my school on my laptop while attending for my Bachelors of Cybersecurity. Could this be the cause/reason for my Timezone settings automatically ...
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WIndows 10 time zone keeps reverting back

I've got a user whose Windows 10 computer won't hold the correct time zone. Specifically, the time zone randomly changes back. The user is in Pacific Time, but the laptop would have been set up at a ...
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Disabling changing the time zone does not work in Windows 10

I have a computer which is used by several users. I would like to disable for these users the option of changing the time zone the system uses (both via the "clicking way" as well as via the ...
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Windows App Keeps changing time randomly

I faced a time problem this week, i have a Network camera app that runs based on multiple servers. the servers storage is where the camera recordings go. Now everything was fine since the first ...
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Windows time zone automatically sets itself to Pacific, and it doesn't change

My Windows time zone is permanently set to Pacific time even though I'm in EST zone. I have turned off "Set time automatically", "Set time zone automatically" and even when I ...
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WSL2 Ubuntu time using wrong TZ to calculate locatime?

I have a Ubuntu 18.04 WSL2 machine running in Windows 10 and from time to time I get this weird problem where the time is out of sync in the WSL2 machine. My timezone is Eastern Time (-5) and as you ...
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Windows detecting wrong time zone after taking Huawei router in use

So far Windows has (nearly) always correctly set the time zone automatically for me wherever I've been traveling, but after installing Huawei WiFi Mesh 7 routers to my home in Norway, Windows now ...
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FFmpeg - write video segments with filenames containing timezone offset

I need to write an FFmpeg command that records a stream in segments of x seconds. The segments should be named using the UTC date and time (UTC+0), rather than my local PC time. Alternatively, I'm ...
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Time wrong when dual-booting Windows and Linux

Ever since I started using Linux in dualboot with Windows I noticed that when I rebooted the machine, the time on the other OS was wrong, e.g. it was 12:00 on Linux, then I rebooted and on Windows it ...
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Inaccurate timezone in firefox

the timezone of my location is expressed in my system with export TZ=America/Mexico_City (My system is Fedora 37). The command date +"%z %Z" show me -0600 CST. That is good because I ...
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Differences between the zone info SQL files generated on different RHEL hosts

We want to install time zone data in MariaDB using mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql. The process roughly includes: Generating an SQL file from the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ...
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How to change the timezone in Firefox using the "about:config" tab?

What's the name of the about:config option that causes my browser to indicate the timezone offset? I would like to override the default value.
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Wrong time update when rebooting Archlinux - Windows 7

I've been using archlinux for a while but as the only SO in a hard drive. Today I decided to make a dual boot between windows 7 and archlinux, everything works fine but I have the following problem: ...
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Unable to set time zone in Windows 11

So, I'm running into what seems to be a common problem, but I can't believe the answers I have found so far are the only right ones. I'm running Windows 11 home, logged in as the administrator account....
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History/explanation for "time zones" on Windows

Not sure if superuser.com is the proper StackExchange site to ask this question; if not, refer me to the most appropriate of the sites. What is the origin of the time zones that come with Windows? For ...
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Error when trying to change the time zone in Windows: "Unable to continue. You do not have permission to perform this task."

It appears that installing Windows 8 on top of XP doesn't give you the option to choose the locale and other settings -- I've got the right keyboard layout restored, and can change the system locale ...
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Thunderbird (52.4.0) : Calendar not using system's timezone

I am frequently travelling between timezones. Have recently started using TB and its calendar. Today I missed an appointment because the time of that appointment was shown in home timezone while I was ...
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ts - timestamp input utility: setting time zone for time stamps

Under the ENVIRONMENT section man page for ts [ts(1)] reads: The standard TZ environment variable controls what time zone dates are assumed to be in, if a timezone is not specified as part of the ...
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Multiple Time Zones in RDS

i have multiple users connecting to the same server from different time zones and countires. the problem is that when users connect to the server they receive the time zone and language setting that ...
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Return employee time zone from AzureAD into Excel as non-admin user

How do I retrieve a user's home base time zone as a UTC offset through a query, accounting for current DST settings? I'm a regular non-admin user. I use Power Query* to retrieve our employee list from ...
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Manually change the timezone on windows 7 in one or two steps

I need to change the timezone from CST(UTC-6) to IST and back to CST approx every hour. It is 6 steps work but having to do it every hour makes me tired. Can I make it simple like in one click?
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WHat is wrong with gmt-5 and gtm+5 timezone files in linux [duplicate]

I am in EDT time zone and I would like to use GMT-5 to convert time to EST (GMT-5 and EST should be the same I think). But GMT-5 results in +5hr offset from UTC which I would expect GMT+5 should be ...
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Date function in Debian is IST, how do I change the default timezone of date, all the timezones are correct CEST

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 without RTC. I am using pisignage, a signage solution for the Pi. It's viewing a webpage with a time. The pi is showing the wrong time because the date command on the pi is ...
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Timezone issue importing ICS file into Outlook

When a meeting invitation is generated in iCloud Calendar and sent to me, I have to import the .ics file into Outlook 2016. When I do so, it imports 1 hour off. iCloud timezone is set to 'United ...
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Windows time keeps changing to a certain (incorrect) local time [duplicate]

My laptop (ThinkPad) was purchased in Germany, then I move to a different time zone. The time of Windows 10 keeps changing back to German time. It can be fixed by clicking "Sync now" but how ...
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How to test DST when using NTP

We have long-running processes on a server. The server clock is synced with NTP. And RTC is set to UTC. Localtime is set to current DST timezone: $ timedatectl Local time: Thu ...
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How do I prevent Pop_OS! from changing the time zone when I'm connected over a VPN?

I'm running Pop_OS! and whenever I connect to a VPN it automatically changes the time zone to the time zone of the endpoint I'm connected to. I want it to only update the time zone when I'm not ...
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how to run cron jobs on GMT not local time?

How can I make cron jobs run on GMT, not local time? this is my crontab file: #m h d m wday command TZ=GMT 5 0,6,12,18 * * * ~/Documents/bash/transfer.sh my jobs seem to ...
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How to show the time of multiple time zones in Windows 10 start menu

This article describes how to get the clocks of multiple time zones in the Windows 10 start menu, as follows: Open the Alarms & Clock app. Click on World Clock. On the bottom-right, ...
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Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat "timezone file"

I was developing a react app and suddenly it stopped, it's never have happened before so i am curious what made it happened? I don't know if there was a file named "/Kolkata" before but it ...
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Windows time off by 1 hour when placing orders, making appointments, etc. on ecommerce sites

In three instances, appointments made with local businesses have been off by 1 hour. Two of those instances were scheduled pick-up times at a local pizza restaurant. Twice, we showed up 1 hour before ...
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Gulf regions schedules appearing 1 hr out in iCalendar

I am being sent schedules from colleagues in Oman and UAE. But they are appearing in my calendar 1 hr later than they should in iCal on my imac. This appears to be because ical is identifying them ...
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How do you specify DST when scheduling a meeting in Outlook?

I am currently working in Europe (Central Europe Time time zone) and I want to schedule a meeting on October 31st 2021 at 02:30 with a colleague in Atlanta (Eastern time). Unfortunately, on October ...
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What time zone does windows event logs show

I have a doubt on the time zone shown in the windows event logs. I had read that if I export the windows event logs from another machine and open it in my machine which has a different time zone, the ...
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Is there a way to schedule tasks in windows specifying a specific time zone?

I need to schedule several tasks to run, where each needs to run at a specific local time in a different city. For example, one job might need to run at 19:00 New York City, and another needs to run ...
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Is there any way to reverse the time to the time before the webpage close the fill out form? If the webpage track the local timezone

Is there any way to reverse the time to the time before the webpage close the fill out form? If the webpage track the local timezone.
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Chrome shows wrong time zone

In Windows my time zone is set to UTC+2:00 Jerusalem But several websites think I'm in UTC. And I see that Chrome reports my timezone as UTC. When I try this in my console Intl.DateTimeFormat()....
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scheduling job with at specifying timezone - "refusing to create job destined in the past"

I'm trying to specify a timezone for at so I can use it in a bash script and not have to worry about adjusting it twice a year, and getting this error: at: refusing to create job destined in the past ...
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How to get more than 3 international clocks in Windows?

Is there a way to get more than 3 international clocks in Windows Vista (or later)? This How To Geek article describes how to add two extra international clocks but I'd like more.
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How do I set the timezone for a published calendar in Office365?

I have a calendar published (not shared) on Office365. When viewing the published version of the calendar appear 4 hours later than they should be. The HTTP view of the published calendar does not say ...
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Unable to change the time zone in Windows 10

I'm running Windows 10 Pro. My time zone is Jerusalem, but I need to change it to Eastern to test a program I'm working on. The time zone won't change. I have tried: From the clock/calendar, when ...
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Incomplete Debian live localisation

I have a live installation of Debian 10.6.0 amd64, burnt on a DVD-RW using imgBurn, for school and I need it to be easily available in italian without much hassle. If I boot it using its italian ...
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How can I get the local system time zone as an IANA time zone ID on Windows 10?

I can get the Windows system local time zone as a Windows time zone identifier by passing the /g parameter to the tzutil utility. For example: C:\> tzutil /g Pacific Standard Time But how can I ...
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How to set timezone of Centos to PST timezone?

I'm using Centos, I used following to set timezone $ ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles localtime To verify: $ date Sat Aug 8 14:04:14 PDT 2020 As you can see, the timezone set is PDT not ...
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How do the major OS like Windows, Mac and Ubuntu/Redhat handle DST and time that goes back 1+ hour?

When time is out of sync, I understand most of the modern operating systems have NTP software that do it in smart increments spreading it through a large interval such that it doesn't affect most ...
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How should this datetime format be interpreted? "20190328012019.000000+120"

20190328012019.000000+120 That's the weird timestamp outputted by WMIC commands on Windows. I assume that 2019 is the year, 03 is the month and 28 is the day, and that 01 is the hour, 20 the minute ...
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command date not respecting timezone

I'm in git-bash on Windows 10 : ~$ locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_ALL= ~$ date --version date (GNU coreutils)...