#1 2026-11-10 19:13:00

JasonMehmel

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 209

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: 17,760

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Re: Advice on managing gcalcli time zone discrepancy

In a terminal, have you tried running...

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

Maybe reboot after.

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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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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JasonMehmel

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 209

Re: Advice on managing gcalcli time zone discrepancy

It looks like my system time is set up correctly:

Local time: Wed 2026-11-11 12:52:57 CST
Universal time: Wed 2026-11-11 18:52:57 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2026-11-11 18:52:57
Time zone: America/Edmonton (CST, -0600)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

I'm wondering if it's something about the way gcalcli is interacting with the Google Calendar API, but I'm not very familiar with that side of things.

The Google Calendar information is accurate when I visit the web page, but maybe there's a system in the API that hasn't gotten the update yet that Alberta *hasn't* done the time change.

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PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 3,145

Re: Advice on managing gcalcli time zone discrepancy

My system time is set correctly (Edmonton, GMT-6)

Is Google Calendar using your system time zone or is it fixed to a GMT value? Apparently. there is a "Use device time zone" option for Google Calendar. I did a search of your issue and found this page for resetting Google Calendar instead of your system. Scroll down for DST.

https://timehopperapp.com/blog/google-c … g-fix.html

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