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Steam games showing incorrect time

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11698 · opened 2025-01-24 by BRTPOB · updated 2026-09-29 · 6 comments · github
BBRTPOB 2025-01-24 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1737601106
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
  • GPU: NVIDIA

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Games that are running through Proton such as Diablo 4 and Anno 1800 are showing the current time as being an hour ahead of where it actually is. As of the writing, the time here in Ireland is 22:48 on 24/01/25, but playing Diablo 4 or Anno 1800, the time shows as 23:48 instead. This seems to be similar to #10057, which was previously closed.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Set timezone to GMT+0 Dublin/London
  2. Launch a Proton-based game that shows a clock in game/shows timestamps for saves
  3. Observe
Aalde 2025-09-05 github

Having the same issues with ingame times showing as UTC, which is 5 hours ahead of me.

~ $ sudo hwclock
2025-09-05 07:38:21.990494-04:00
~ $ timedatectl
               Local time: Fri 2025-09-05 07:40:27 EDT
           Universal time: Fri 2025-09-05 11:40:27 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri 2025-09-05 11:40:27
                Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
~ $

Distribution: Fedora 42
Flatpak: Yes
Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client
Steam Version: 1751405894
Steam Client Build Date: Fri, Jun 27 21:07 UTC -05:00
Steam Web Build Date: Tue, Jul 1 17:19 UTC -05:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient022

TtheCapypara 2025-09-23 github

Can confirm this issue. Unlike #10057 the steam overlay is correct, just the time display in games is wrong. It seems that Proton has no timezone information, it seems to always use UTC.

Aalde 2025-09-24 github

I solved it by setting the following in the launch options:

TZ=EST5EDT LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 %command%
Ssolomongrundy6 2025-12-24 github

TZ=EST5EDT LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 %command%

If using the Steam flatpak, adding these as environment variables with Flatseal also seems to work.

FFrenzie 2026-08-31 github

It doesn't seem to use UTC for me but something like UTC-4.

I just saved a game at 21:59 (UTC+2) and the game says 15:59.

Aaidalgol 2026-09-29 github

How are you all running Steam? I stopped having the issue a while ago, running the Flatpak distribution, on Aurora 44.

$ flatpak info --show-permissions com.valvesoftware.Steam 
[Context]
shared=ipc;network;
sockets=pulseaudio;wayland;x11;
devices=all;
features=bluetooth;devel;multiarch;per-app-dev-shm;
filesystems=xdg-config/MangoHud:ro;xdg-config/gtk-4.0:ro;xdg-music:ro;xdg-pictures:ro;xdg-run/app/com.discordapp.Discord:create;/run/udev:ro;xdg-run/speech-dispatcher:ro;/run/media;/mnt;/media;/var/mnt/extra/aidan/steam;xdg-run/pipewire-0:ro;
persistent=.;
unset-environment=ALSA_CONFIG_PATH;TZ;STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES;STEAM_RUNTIME;SDL_VIDEODRIVER;MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR;QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME;

[Session Bus Policy]
com.steampowered.*=own
org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher=talk
org.freedesktop.Notifications=talk
org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver=talk
org.freedesktop.PowerManagement=talk
org.gnome.SessionManager=talk

[System Bus Policy]
org.freedesktop.UPower=talk
org.freedesktop.UDisks2=talk

[Environment]
ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=
TZ=
STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS=/app/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d:/app/utils/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d:/run/parent/app/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d
PYTHONPATH=/app/utils/lib/python3.13/site-packages
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_MONETARY=C
FLATPAK_STEAM_UPDATE_SYMLINKS=0
DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0
STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=
MANGOHUD=1
FLATPAK_STEAM_XDG_DIRS_PREFIX=~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam
LC_TELEPHONE=C
SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
STEAM_RUNTIME=
LC_MEASUREMENT=C
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/app/share:/usr/lib/extensions/vulkan/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/runtime/share:/run/host/user-share:/run/host/share:/usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/share
LC_NAME=C
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/GL
LC_COLLATE=C
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=
GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=/app/lib/gstreamer-1.0:/app/lib32/gstreamer-1.0:/usr/lib/extensions/gstreamer-1.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/codecs-extra/lib/gstreamer-1.0:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/codecs-extra/lib/gstreamer-1.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0
MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR=
LC_ADDRESS=C
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=
PATH=/app/bin:/app/utils/bin:/usr/bin
PROTON_DEBUG_DIR=/var/tmp

No overrides.

$ flatpak override --show com.valvesoftware.Steam
$

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