Wrong time in Vivaldi after update
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it seemed like it was already set, but I did it anyway. No impact. I rebooted as well for good measure, and confirmed the time shown on BIOS clock matches the UTC time, which is consistent with what we are seeing for timedatectl
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@hockeybum Sorry to say, musst be something on your Linux. My Vivaldi works on Ubuntu 18 LTS with correct time and timnezone.
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@hockeybum any extensions that could interfere? Tried in a clean profile?
vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions --user-data-dir=/tmp/vivtest/ -
No other apps are behaving this way. Based on what I'm seeing, Vivaldi is ignoring the timezone and just going with what is in the RTC.
The time feature in Vivaldi is not a critical one, resolving this is not critical for me, but I would like to get it resolved.
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Still getting the same, unfortunately.
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@hockeybum said in Wrong time in Vivaldi after update:
Vivaldi is ignoring the timezone
No, it does not, that would have been reported often when it could happen.
Something wrong on you Linux.I like to know more.
Start shell and tell output of
echo $TZ
sudo su
echo $TZ
cat /etc/timezone
timedatectl show --va -p Timezone -
The first two commands do not return anything, just a blank line.
Here is the remainder:
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@hockeybum /edit:
checking again the manual...no idea, but I'd say you should upgrade to at least 20.04 anyway, 18.04 has gone EOL end of May, it's not supported anymore and it could contain bugs like this one...
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Even though DoctorG reported that it's working on his, that is a good point. I have been hesitant to do so, but it may a good reason to do it now.
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@hockeybum yeah but I'm not 100% sure that she has tested it with BIOS (your machine) or UEFI, it could make a difference.
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another good point
Thanks for all your time and help on this - and to DoctorG as well! -
@hockeybum np
If you are going to upgrade check beforehand the nvidia craptuation (I hope you don't have one) and tell us how it went, and if you see a difference with this issue (or DoctorG comes up with a solution)/update: @hockeybum I couldn't resist so I created a BIOS Ubuntu 18.04 VM and installed Vivaldi, I can confirm the issue
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Tomorrow I will try upgrading it to 20.04 and see if it goes away, potentially saving you some time/work
/update #2: I just switched to another timezone
then restarted the service(is not needed), I think this fixes it@hockeybum switch timezone to Toronto
let's say Athens as a test, is it working now?then you can switch back the TZsee update #3.
only thing that needs to be investigated is if it survives reboots...
/update #3: bizzarely enough it just doesn't like New York, it resets 
, but if I set Toronto-Canada (same UTC-4) (or anything else) it survives the reboot. -
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@npro said in Wrong time in Vivaldi after update:
/update: @hockeybum I couldn't resist so I created a BIOS Ubuntu 18.04 VM and installed Vivaldi, I can confirm the issue .
I did that with a VirtualBox VM & Ubuntu 18.04 on my Windows 11; i had a fresh Vivaldi install and could not see the issue. Strange. What do i need to reproduce what you could?
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@hockeybum I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on a VM.
I logged in as as root
Switched timezone from Berlin to New York with
timedatectrl set-timezone America/New_York
Switched to other virtual console to get GUI
Logged in to Desktop
Started Vivaldi 6.2 (and 6.3)
Bäng: it showed time of UTC
I will check Ubuntu 20 now.
//EDIT: I propose you to upgrade to Ubuntu 20 LTS as 18 is End of Life.
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@DoctorG said in Wrong time in Vivaldi after update:
I will check Ubuntu 20 now.
It's OK in Ubuntu 20, I just did the upgrade
However, the upgrade comes with the snapdbackend!
@hockeybum you may consider this if you have (the slow) HDDs, it will eat a lot of disk space, the programs will load slower and your boot time will be affected as well if you start using lots of them.
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@npro Yes, in Ubuntu 20 LTS it is ok.
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seems to me there's an easy remedy, to this & myriad other impending problems.
never use buntu.
never ever.
instead, use an actually half-decent penguin.
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