{{Header}} {{Title|title= System Timezone }} {{#seo: |description=Information about system timezone setting. How to change the System Timezone. |image=Timezone123123451.png }} [[File:Timezone123123451.png|thumb]] {{intro| Information about system timezone setting. How to change the System Timezone. }} = Information = Quote {{project_name_long}} [[Post Install Advice]]:
To protect against time zone leaks, the system clock inside {{project_name_short}} is set to UTC. This means it may be a few hours before or ahead of your host system clock. Do not change this setting!= Change System Timezone = '''1.''' Introduction. '''{{project_name_short}} specific part:''' To prevent package [https://github.com/whonix/anon-apps-config anon-apps-config] from changing the timezone to UTC during upgrades, a status file must be created as documented in the next step. https://github.com/Whonix/anon-apps-config/commit/85dcdaaeafe150a740949d5b8d167e6f0fa10c7d '''2.''' Select your platform. {{Tab |type=controller |addToClass=tcc-indent |id=timezone-qubes-vs-nonqubes |content= {{Tab |active=true |addToClass=margin-top-20 active |id=timezone-qubes-vs-nonqubes |title= == {{non_q_project_name_long}} == |content= '''3.''' Run the following command. {{CodeSelect|code= sudo touch /etc/noutc }} }} {{Tab |addToClass=margin-top-20 |id=timezone-qubes-vs-nonqubes |title= == {{q_project_name_long}} == |content= '''3.''' Run the following 2 commands. {{CodeSelect|code= sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/ }} {{CodeSelect|code= sudo touch /usr/local/etc/noutc }} }} }} '''4.''' Actual timezone change. '''{{project_name_short}} unspecific part:''' Time zone can be adjusted as per [[Self_Support_First_Policy|Self Support First Policy]]. Note: * '''A)''' System setting: System timezone as configured
/etc/timezone
/ /etc/localtime
is a "system setting".
* '''B)''' User setting: What (Xfce) graphical user interface clock widget is showing and its setting might be independent from the "system setting" since that is a "user setting".
'''5.''' Done.
The process of changing the timezone has been completed.
= Timezone vs sdwdate =
[[sdwdate]] is mostly unrelated. It can operate independently of system timezone setting. It is a time synchronization daemon. It does not alter the system timezone.
= Timezone vs Tor Browser =
[[Tor Browser]] has its own independent development team and independent implementation of timezone change. This is [[unspecific]] to Whonix. Tor Browser does the same on non-Whonix systems. In other words, Tor Browser does the same on Debian hosts. Changing the system timezone will not affect Tor Browser.
= Related =
* [[Network Time Synchronization]]
* [[sdwdate]]
= Footnotes / References =
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