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I don't know how its sourced for sure, but are you using a vpn? It could be figuring out what servers you're connected to and their geographical location so if using a VPN and connecting to a different continent, it could be pulling timezone from that continent.
No VPN, it's strange because I haven't had a problem with any other services that use IP geolocation (which I assume is what KDE uses) - even Gnome's auto location tool seems to work fine.
Randomly thought of this today: how did you install kde? Did it come packages with your distro or did you install it manually? I was wondering if maybe there's a config file that's supposed to be set with your timezone or something that isn't set (specifically for the night mode feature) and its defaulting to a hardcoded default in the code or another config or something?
Generally it's just through my distro, it's always occurred since I've used KDE unfortunately (since that was one of my first thoughts). This has been across Fedora (and derivatives), Nix, Arch, and Kubuntu.