Questions tagged [time-zone]
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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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Set a timezone other than the system timezone for specific applications
Is it possible in Windows 10 to set an application to run using a timezone different than the system's timezone?
For example, the system timezone is GMT-5:00 (EST) but I want an application to run ...
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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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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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change time zone offset without changing timezone id in linux RHEL
My current timezone is 'Africa/Khartoum' which is GMT+3:00, as per government desiccation it's going to be GMT+2:00 starting from 1st Nov. I know I can change my current date to be an hour earlier but ...
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Applications in different timezone from computer/
My computer time and timezone are set correctly but various applications seem to be independently set to different timezones. See screenshot below which shows Chrome, Firefox, and IE which all show a ...
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What's the difference between GMT+01:00 Amsterdam and GMT+01:00 Brussels?
I live in Vienna. My newly reset Android device just asked me about my time zone and I have multiple options available:
Amsterdam GMT+01:00
Belgrade GMT+01:00
Brussels GMT+01:00
Sarajevo GMT+01:00
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Windows 10 Clock Occasionally Displays +5 hours Upon Startup
I've been having this strange issue with my system clock. Sometimes when I start up Windows 10, my clock displays a time that is 5 hours ahead of the current time. So if it's noon where I live (...
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How to reboot automatically at a certain hour and mail it happened? (timezone issue)
Googled it, tried and made some attempts to do it on Ubuntu 12.04, but it's working in a strange way... These are my crontab entries, that
launch a certain script controlling something (not relevant)...
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How to enable "Synchronize across time zones" option with Schtasks.exe
I need to create a schedule task in 1000+ machines which should be running at the same time hence decided to use the option of "Synchronize across time zones". For deploying in these machines, I am ...
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Windows Time always shifted one hour back
I performed a fresh installation of Windows 7 Professional SP1. Each time I turn my laptop on the clock shows time shifted exactly one hour back. I'm located in UTC +1 timezone, same for cities like ...
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How can I display a UTC date time value in the user's local time zone in Excel?
I have a spreadsheet with date/time values in UTC that I would like to be displayed to users in their time zone, e.g. the same spreadsheet containing UTC date/time values is provided to users in ...
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How to add more than 2 additional timezone clocks in Windows 10? [duplicate]
Currently I have an ability to add only 2 additional time zones
How to add more?
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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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Convert date to different timezone + format change
I have a log file with timestamps in format of "22.09.2016 08:22:54" ("+%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S"). This timestamp is in UTC timezone.
Now I have to convert this timestamp to Europe/Helsinki timestamp using ...
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How can I set Windows 10 timezone to Tunis?
How do I set up Windows 10 to be in the correct timezone for Tunis, Tunisia?
If I go to Settings, Time & Language, Date & Time, I can choose a timezone, but Tunis is not in the list. Why not? ...
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How to set PHP timezone for cloud based web server distributed to different geographic regions?
I'm getting the following warning while running php -i:
PHP Warning: Unknown: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are required to use the date.timezone setting or the ...
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dpkg-reconfigure tzdata not working on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty
I'm trying to change local timezone on Ubuntu 14.04 with the following commands.
$ echo Asia/Tokyo > /etc/timezone
$ dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
Current default time zone: '...
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Set debian Linux Timezone via command line
Is there a way i can set the current timezone via the commandline/terminal? Its for a shelle script so im looking for some, hopefully, one liner like date -Z 'Europe/London' (Just an example), in ...
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ICS Timezone "Z" not working?
I live in Seattle, so I'm on Pacific Time.
I have an ICS file which contains this event:
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND:20160309T050000
UID:worldt20-2016-03
DTSTAMP:20120315T170000Z
SUMMARY:Bangladesh v ...
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Windows 10 detecting the wrong time zone
When I go up to my cabin, Windows always changes my time zone to Pacific. I'm in Mountain Time, and I actually go east to get to the cabin. I don't know if it's the IP address, or the WiFi network, or ...
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Windows 8 is reseting time after set to UTC
I changed timezone like suggest in this answer
But every hour Windows is reseting the time.
I disabled sync from internet but the problem continues
How can I solve that error?
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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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creating compiled TZ database from a posix timezone expression
I want to create a compiled TZ database file from a posix expression.
Is there any unix utility which can create the TZ database out of the posix expression?
I do check the zic command but I was ...
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Prevent non-admin users from changing time zone in windows
Back in Windows XP typical users couldn't change system's time zone. In newer versions the time zone can be changed even by non-admin users. I can understand the reason they added this ability, but it ...
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Windows 10 image from Clonezilla comes up in GMT-1
Mixed Win8.1 / Win10 shop, Linux infrastructure. Jenkins runs machines; OS, apps, drivers, Clonezilla supplies OS images. Images installed by PXE boot/Jenkins coercing it. With release of Win10, co-...
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date. hwclock keep showing wrongly everytime after reboot
Edited question to better reflect situation. (My hwclock and date is not showing correctly)
I am on +GMT 8 and i have set my hwclock to localtimezone by doing the following
rm /etc/adjtime
system-...
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How do I show additional clocks in the new Windows 10 clock?
With the old clocks we can view at most two additional clocks. However the new clock interface in Windows 10 only displays the current system clock. To view the time in other places I must click on ...
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What is the default timezone in a typical Linux (if any)?
I am administering a CentOS 6 Linux OS.
I want to remove all explicit timezone information where such information may cause anything but UTC timezone for the system. This is because it is a template ...
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Do Windows 7 time zones work correctly?
As you see below, I changed the Windows clock time-zone from UTC +3:30 Tehran to UTC +1:00 Windhoek. As 3:30 - 1:00 = 2.30, I expect the time to change -2:30, But it change -1.30 :
Before :
After :
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Windows 7 thinks that the UTC+1 Amsterdam time zone is really an UTC+10 time zone
I've been having problems with the Windows clock for a while.
I tried a variety of solutions, but nothing seemed to really work, so finally I just decided to disable the automated internet time ...
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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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How can I have a secondary clock show in 24-hour time but the primary one in 12-hour time?
Is it possible to have only one of my secondary clocks display in 24-hour time while the other two clocks display in 12-hour time? If so, how?
I would find this useful for dealing with UTC time.
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Possible to display timezone in OS X menu bar?
Since I have trouble keeping my standard/DST straight in my head, I'd like to see the 3-letter timezone abbreviation with the date/time on my menu bar in OS X.
I tried customizing the short time ...
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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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How can I check if timezone has changed in a bash script?
I have a shell script that runs via crontab, but the commands in it are timezone dependent (they refresh a table in database everyday. If the script runs during the time of a DST change, it will ...
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How to stop website localizing the timezone for me automatically?
I'm currently living in Hong Kong where the timezone is UTC+8.
Now I'm travelling to Germany and I'm planning some activities. For example I would like to watch a football match and tried to check ...
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How to fix timezone data in pfSense/freeBSD?
We have special situation with timezones here in Russia. Recently government had cancelled timesave shifting and it was no timeshifts for some time, but recently they decided to make one "last" ...
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Is the Excel "Last Modified" time adjusted to my timezone?
I'm looking at a Last Modified time stamp in an Excel Workbook:
I got the spreadsheet from China, and I'm sitting in Denmark. These two countries are in two different time zones, and I would thus ...
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How to Schedule Tasks according to several Timezones
I need to use Windows Scheduler or any other app for setting jobs at a concrete time depending on destination country.
That means scheduling a job at 7 am (UK Timezone), another at 7 am (US Timezone),...
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Change the timezone (TZ environment variable) for a running irssi session?
When travelling to other timezones, I set TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/current_timezone on remote shells where I log on to, including the shell in which I run irssi inside tmux. Can I change the TZ for a ...
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Files modified outside Daylight Saving Time show Standard Time in Windows 7 Explorer
I have Windows 7 Professional, with automatic updates (so all patches should have been applied). I am in the EST/EDT time zone (New York). The Control Panel time box has "use DST" checked. DST just "...
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Dual booting Debian / Windows XP: clock is off
I just installed Debian (Wheezy) on a Windows XP machine and am dual booting. But the clock is different! It's one hour late on XP versus Debian.
I'm in Paris (GMT +1) and we're in winter (daylight ...
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Change timezone in Ubuntu
I'm working with a server with Ubuntu 12.04. I need to change the timezone from Europe/London to America/Sao_Paulo.
On this server I have Apache2, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, R and others installed.
Do I ...
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Why does the "date -u" command show time 25 seconds ahead of "export TZ=UTC; date"?
I am running clockspeed-0.62 (DJB software) on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander). I have setup time zones so that /usr/share/zoneinfo is a link to /usr/share/right, and I have setup an up-to-date /etc/...
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Why Notepad++ says my files were modified by another program when I change timezone in Windows 8?
Why Notepad++ says my files were modified by another program when I change timezone in Windows 8?
Reproduction steps:
- Open file in notepad++
- Change timezone
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Timezone setting in Linux
I'm setting timezone GMT+6 on my Linux machine by copying the zoneinfo file to /etc/localtime, but the date command is showing the time UTCtime-6. What is the reason for this behaviour?
I'm assuming ...
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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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Incorrect system time, Windows 8
My computer's time keeps getting set incorrectly. My time zone is set correctly, and if I "Update now" to synchronize with an internet time server (time-a.nist.gov), the time gets set correctly. It ...
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Changing time zone for a single user in Gnome 3
I was in Athens, now I'm temporarily in Berlin. I don't want to change the system time, it's perfectly correct. I just want the system to display the time in a different zone. I shouldn't need ...
