System Timezone
Information about system timezone setting. How to change the System Timezone.
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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]
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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.
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3. Run the following command.
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3. Run the following 2 commands.
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4. Actual timezone change.
Whonix unspecific part: Time zone can be adjusted as per Self Support First Policy.
5. See upstream documentation.
- Introduction: Whonix Documentation Introduction, User Expectations, Footnotes and References, User Expectations - What Documentation Is and What It Is Not
- Whonix is based on Kicksecure™: Whonix inherits many features and principles from Kicksecure.
- Kicksecure is based on Debian: Kicksecure builds upon the stability of Debian.
- Inheritance: Therefore, Whonix is also based on Debian.
- Debian is GNU/Linux-based: Debian primarily uses the GNU/Linux as its foundation.
- Shared documentation benefits: Because one distribution is based on another:
- Inherited documentation: Little specific documentation is required for each layer.
- Shared principles: Features and principles often remain consistent across forks. Users can often follow the same instructions for both Whonix and Kicksecure.
- Keep using Whonix: This does not mean the user should switch to Kicksecure.
- Where to apply the instructions: The instructions should be applied inside Whonix.
- Wiki editors notice: This box is wiki template upstream_wiki. (Pages that link to it.)
- Comparison: Whonix versus Kicksecure
- Documentation compatibility: Since Whonix is based on Kicksecure, the user can follow these instructions for Timezone . Apply the instructions inside Whonix, not Kicksecure.
- Note: Re-interpretation...
Kicksecure: Perform these steps inside Kicksecure.
Instead the user should apply the instructions inside Whonix-Workstation.
Kicksecure for Qubes: Perform these steps inside Qubes
kicksecure-17
Template.
Instead the user should apply the instructions inside whonix-workstation-17
Template.
6. Done.
The process of changing the timezone has been completed.
Timezone vs sdwdate[edit]
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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]
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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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