Cannot set the time correctly

[moshebagelfresser]

The clock is wrong I am on Jerusalem Daylight Saving Time and it's showing Jerusalem Winter Time. I am unable even in root to reset it to the correct time. I have has to set it to Athens time. We will be moving off Daylight Savings time at the end of the month with the rest of Europe.

[gohlip]

First, you need to set your computer to use UTC instead of local-time.

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# timedatectl set-local-rtc false

And best to enable NTP.
Finally, if you use Windows, it will revert to local-time and when Mageia starts up again after you boot windows, it will show wrong time until NTP kicks in.
To prevent this set all your other OS to UTC as well and for windows, you will need to change its registry settings (to UTC) and disable NTP for windows. (some windows upgrade may mess this up again to show local-time - repeat registry change)

note: linux UTC will take care of daylight changes; local-time will not.
windows will prompt you if you want to change for daylight - answer 'y'

[doktor5000]

Which desktop environment are you using, and which tool did you use to set the clock? drakclock?

Also please show the output of

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timedatectl

and

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tail -1 /etc/localtime

[kenkay]

I had exactly the same problem. NTP mistakenly thinks that standard time has arrived and sets the clock back one hour. One temporary solution is to uncheck Enable Network Time Protocol in the Date, Clock & Time Zone settings. The time change should now stick. When Winter Time begins at the end of the month you can reset NTP.

[neXt]

check if in /etc/sysconfig/clock you have ZONE=(I presume it should be "Israel" for you)
run a zdump -v /etc/localtime it should show your right DST (Sat Oct 4 22:59:59 2014 UTC = Sun Oct 5 01:59:59 2014 IDT isdst=1)
if not, check if your /etc/localtime points to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel, otherwise you should run

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rm -f /etc/localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel /etc/localtime