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-config
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.
Note:
- A) System setting: System timezone as configured
/etc/timezone//etc/localtimeis 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[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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