Ubuntu phone - clock on welcome screen showing wrong time

I have Ubuntu phone Aquaris BQ 4.5 UE (with latest available updates) and I think the phone uses two dfferent times - different times for different applications.

1) UTC (which is not my local time) is used:

1a) by the clock on the welcome screen

1b) by the clock in the notification bar (top of the screen)

1c) probably by the alarm clock funtion which is set via application "Clock". But the "Clock" itself is showing the correct local time. Alarm won't ring when it is supposed to ring but accoridng to some strange rules. I think it must be set good time ahead and then if it rings, then it is only according to UTC. This is really disturbing as in my case it would be one or two hours too late :-).

2) My correct local time (UTC+2 in summer or UTC+1 in winter) I get:

2a) in Terminal (using the command date).

2b) in "System settings" --> "Time & Date" --> "Set the time and date" which is set to "Automatically" and one line below it is showing the correct local time.

2c) Application "Clock" is showing also the correct local time.

2d) Application "Calendar" is using it probably as well as all entries in the "Calendar" trigger an alarm sound at the right (local) time.

DST change a few days ago worked in cases 2a-2d fine as well but didn't influence any of the 1a-1c. Does anybody have an idea?

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The ntp service is probably running and using the port try the following from terminal and let me know if it worked

sudo service ntp stop
sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov
sudo service ntp start

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OK, the problem is solved. I followed this guide to flash Aquaris Ubuntu E4.5 to Android and then I flashed it back to Ubuntu (some older image mentioned in the guide and then OTA update): . Now I have just one time zone and the alarm clock works.

Small note about the hardware. I can agree with the author of the guide. The phone itself is a very decent piece of hardware (when running Android), Ubuntu is lagging a lot, but from the optimistic point of view, there is a lot of potential :-)

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