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JasonMehmel

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 208

Advice on managing gcalcli time zone discrepancy

Hey all,

So my Canadian province (Alberta) decided to not do daylight savings and so didn't change the time zone.

Most things stayed the same but a few programs have gotten out of sync because of this, namely gcalcli!

I've got it running in a Conky and being out of sync has caused some confusion!

I'm trying to figure out how to manage this. My system time is set correctly (Edmonton, GMT-6) and I've tried refreshing gcalcli in case it was taking the system time that way.

There is a --locale option, but I *think* that's just affecting the language settings.

I figured someone here might have dealt with something similar, hence my question!

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Hercule Poirot

From: Belgium

Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 17,755

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Re: Advice on managing gcalcli time zone discrepancy

In a terminal, have tried running...

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

Maybe reboot after.

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From: Upstairs

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 8,533

Re: Advice on managing gcalcli time zone discrepancy

Personally - just me.  I'd do a check first:

 2026·11·10 @ 22:02:59 ~
   $ timedatectl
               Local time: Tue 2026-11-10 22:04:11 -03
           Universal time: Wed 2026-11-11 01:04:11 UTC
                 RTC time: Wed 2026-11-11 01:04:12
                Time zone: America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires (-03, -0300)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
 
 2026·11·10 @ 22:04:11 ~
   $ 

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