System Timezone

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Information about system timezone setting. How to change the 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]

1. Introduction.

Whonix specific part: To prevent package anon-apps-configarchive.org from changing the timezone to UTC during upgrades, a status file must be created as documented in the next step. [1]

2. Select your platform.

Non-Qubes-Whonix

3. Run the following command.

sudo touch /etc/noutc

Qubes-Whonix

3. Run the following 2 commands.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/

sudo touch /usr/local/etc/noutc

4. Actual timezone change.

Whonix unspecific part: Time zone can be adjusted as per Self Support First Policy.

5. See upstream documentation.

Since Whonix is based on Kicksecure, the user can follow these instructions Kicksecure logo Timezone Onion Version (links to the Kicksecure website)

6. Done.

The process of changing the timezone has been completed.

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.

Timezone vs Tor Browser[edit]

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.

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