Waybar clock shows UTC in stead of my local time (CEST)

[hanska-slow]

After updating to 2.9.6.1 the waybar clock shows the UTC time (11:07 Mon) instead of my local CEST time as before. The starship prompt line however displays the correct time.

❯ timedatectl
Local time: Mon 2024-09-09 13:07:38 CEST
Universal time: Mon 2024-09-09 11:07:38 UTC
RTC time: Mon 2024-09-09 11:07:39
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam (CEST, +0200)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

[hambosto]

the waybar problem is probably not supporting/misreading the latest tzdata, not a dotfiles problem. try downgrading the tzdata package.

wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/t/tzdata/tzdata-2024a-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U tzdata-2024a-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

and then restart/logout it will solve this problem.

[DWarez]

the waybar problem is probably not supporting/misreading the latest tzdata, not a dotfiles problem. try downgrading the tzdata package.

wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/t/tzdata/tzdata-2024a-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U tzdata-2024a-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

and then restart/logout it will solve this problem.

This solves the issue, thanks 😄

[gnussbaum67]

make sure to edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment "IgnorePkg" and add tzdata to it, or else it will try to update it to the broken update

[ajboni]

btw, hyperlock has the same issue and probably others relaying on tzdata
more context:
hyprwm/hyprlock#484
Alexays/Waybar#3584

[hanska-slow]

Problem solved. Thank you all for your reaction.!