I am encountering a similar problem. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 off of a pendrive (with persistent data enabled). Here are the steps / symptoms I'm seeing:
1) Set up the timezone, etc. and see the correct date/time reported on the toolbar. My timezone is "America/North_Dakota/Center". I've used "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" to set my timezone, and have confirmed that "/etc/timezone" matches my setting. Doing a 'diff -s /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/`cat /etc/timezone`' indicates no difference (as expected). 2) Reboot. 3) The date/time on the panel bar now reads +0600 hours local time (local time = 9PM CST, panel bar time = 3AM") On the command-line 'date' similarly reads UTC instead of CST. 4) Go to System > Administration > Time And Date 5) "Time Zone" now is blank. In step 1) above, I had set it to America/North_Dakota/Center". /etc/timezone is still correct. However, 'diff -s /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/`cat /etc/timezone`' now indicates a difference - this is unexpected. Doing a 'diff -s /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC' shows an identical match. I'm guessing that something at either power-down or boot-up is forcefully updating /etc/localtime. Might be simply a matter of figuring out what and why. -- timezone info is forgotten at reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308983 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
