System Timezone
Information[edit]
Quote Whonix ™ Post Install Advice:
To protect against time zone leaks, the system clock inside Whonix ™ 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[edit]
Whonix ™ specific part: To prevent package anon-apps-config from changing the timezone to UTC during upgrades, create either file
/etc/noutc
or /usr/local/etc/noutc
. [1]
sudo touch /etc/noutc
Whonix ™ unspecific part: Time zone can be adjusted as per Free Support Principle.
Note: system timezone as configured /etc/timezone
/ /etc/localtime
is a "system 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".
Timezone vs sdwdate[edit]
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.
Related[edit]
Footnotes / References[edit]
- ↑
https://github.com/Whonix/anon-apps-config/commit/85dcdaaeafe150a740949d5b8d167e6f0fa10c7d
- ↑ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/ sudo touch /usr/local/etc/noutc