Date and Time Problem (Redhat 8)

[zenix]

K, here's the basics of my problem...

I noticed that my date wasn't displaying porperly in certain applications. For example; in Evolution. In the summary screen is shows the correct date, but if you go to calendar or send a message it shows it as being one day prior.

So, my first thought was well let me check my date and time, right? I tried to run Redhat's config utillity (redhat-config-date), but it wouldn't run. When I ran it from the command line the last line before it exits gives this error: "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'tz'" without the quotes.

After gettting that error I tried to configure the date and time using timeconfig. This work, but didn't fix my problem and I still can't run the redhat-config-date untillity. My hunch is that these problems are related. Any help will be greatly appreaciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Dolda2000]

One day prior? Are you sure? That sounds too strange.
Anyway, the problem with redhat-config-date seems like it's more high-level, like in bonobo or so. The time problem can't be that far up, I think.
If it were an hour or so back or forth, I'd think it was a time zone problem. Maybe you should try anyway with moving your hardware clock into UTC time and adjust your configuration likewise.
Are there any other applications exhibiting this behavior?

[zenix]

Thanks for the reply, but I just got it working. I'm sure you're right about the Redhat-config-date being a high level issue.

Anyway, this is how I got it working. First, I should say that running the date command prior to doing this DID display the correct information. Just for kicks I used timeconfig to reset my time zone, then I used the date command to reset my date and time.... after that apps are displaying properly. Redhat-config-time still doesn't work, but the apps display properly.

The really confusing part of this in the beggining was that when I ran date... it dispalyed properly, when I looked at my clock in KDE... it displayed proerply.

I guess it doens't matter now... it's working and that's what matters to me.

[majorwoo]

if you meant you were confused by KDE NOT showing proper time after date did, that can happen - when you first change it you have to let KDE get caught up, log out/in or sometimes i have hidden the taskbar and brought it back

[zenix]

No I wasn't cofused by Kde not displaying the same info as date... they were displaying the same info (and the correct info). However, when I was in certain apps it was displaying the wrong date.

[majorwoo]

yeah - strange