Index: sources/view/settings/VDateTime.cpp
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diff -u -r5b9ecb01e9dca6c67f8ecf66fa0c63ac34c820d9 -r927113ed8827c44bbe40e0af952ac9b9683ac03b
--- sources/view/settings/VDateTime.cpp	(.../VDateTime.cpp)	(revision 5b9ecb01e9dca6c67f8ecf66fa0c63ac34c820d9)
+++ sources/view/settings/VDateTime.cpp	(.../VDateTime.cpp)	(revision 927113ed8827c44bbe40e0af952ac9b9683ac03b)
@@ -91,22 +91,21 @@
     hour    ( vHour   );
     minute  ( vMinute );
 
-    QDateTime currentDateTimeLocal ( QDate(_year     .toInt() ,
-                                           _month    .toInt() ,
-                                           _day      .toInt()),
-                                     QTime(_hour     .toInt() ,
-                                           _minute   .toInt()));
+    const QDateTime currentDateTimeLocal ( QDate(_year     .toInt()  ,
+                                                 _month    .toInt()  ,
+                                                 _day      .toInt()) ,
+                                           QTime(_hour     .toInt()  ,
+                                                 _minute   .toInt()));
     const QString dateTimeLocalStr = currentDateTimeLocal.toString(_Settings.getDatetimeFormat());
 
     // Get the current UTC datetime
-    QDateTime currentDateTimeUTC = currentDateTimeLocal.toUTC();
-    currentDateTimeUTC.setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC);
-    const quint32 epochUTC_sec = currentDateTimeUTC.toSecsSinceEpoch();
+    const QDateTime currentDateTimeUTC = currentDateTimeLocal.toUTC();
+    const quint32   epochUTC_sec       =   currentDateTimeUTC.toSecsSinceEpoch();
 
     LOG_DEBUG(tr("SetDateTime %1").arg(dateTimeLocalStr));
     status("Setting date and time ...");
 
-    dateTimeUI(dateTimeLocalStr);
+    dateTimeUI(dateTimeLocalStr );
     dateTimeHD(epochUTC_sec     );
     dateTimeDG(epochUTC_sec     );
 
@@ -273,16 +272,14 @@
     // Doing a single update of the HD-UI RTC sync on start-up
     static bool _hasDoneHDSyncRTC = false;
     if ( !_hasDoneHDSyncRTC ) {
-        QDateTime hdRTCTime;
-        hdRTCTime.setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC);
-        hdRTCTime.setSecsSinceEpoch(vData.mEpoch);
+        QDateTime hdRTCTime_localZone; // Default timespec is Qt::localTime / local time zoned
+        hdRTCTime_localZone.setSecsSinceEpoch(vData.mEpoch);
 
-        QDateTime localDateTime = hdRTCTime.toLocalTime();
-
-        QString newDateTimeString = localDateTime.toString(_Settings.getDatetimeFormat());
+        const QString newDateTimeString = hdRTCTime_localZone.toString(_Settings.getDatetimeFormat());
         dateTimeUI(newDateTimeString);
+
         _hasDoneHDSyncRTC = true; // indicate HD-UI RTC sync'd
 
-        //DEBUG: qDebug() << "Sync HD->UI RTC | HD Epoch: " << vData.mEpoch << " | HD datetime: " << hdRTCTime.toString(_Settings.getDatetimeFormat()) <<" | local datetime : " << newDateTimeString;
+        //DEBUG: qDebug() << "Sync HD->UI RTC | HD Epoch: " << vData.mEpoch << " | HD datetime (local zone): " << hdRTCTime_localZone.toString(_Settings.getDatetimeFormat()) <<" | local datetime : " << newDateTimeString;
     }
 }