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<p style="margin-top: 0;">On December 5th, 2013, 11:52 p.m. GMT, <b>Martin Klapetek</b> wrote:</p>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Note that Debian-based systems actually do copy the file rather than symlink - main reason being that if you use a symlink and your /usr is mounted on a separate partition, anything that starts before /usr gets mounted will not have the correct timezone.</pre>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">And it's not just that... Old versions of Red Hat also copied the file, and Debian stores the current tz name in /etc/timezone, and Red Hat and openSUSE store it in /etc/sysconfig/clock. Some older distros have the tz files in /usr/lib/zoneinfo instead of /usr/share/zoneinfo. And who knows what else other distros do! This code scares me (the old code especially so, why is it calling zic?), we're making all sorts of assumptions about the underlying system that we can't be sure of and changing things that could break the users system. Personally, I think the distros need to take care of this side of things by providing a script for us to call. I think most distros do have different command line tools to do it, but finding and maintaining them all would be a nightmare. Perhaps we need to install and call a script kde-set-timezone which the distros can then modify to call their own tools?
Hmmmm, I almost find myself wishing systemd would take care of all this for us :-)</pre>
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<p>- John</p>
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<p>On December 5th, 2013, 11:24 p.m. GMT, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:</p>
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<div>Review request for kde-workspace.</div>
<div>By Lukáš Tinkl.</div>
<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated Dec. 5, 2013, 11:24 p.m.</i></p>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>
<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159171">159171</a>,
<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323511">323511</a>
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<b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt;">Repository: </b>
kde-workspace
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">- fix saving/loading of timezones in kcmclock
- do not mark the module as changed right after the new timezone gets loaded back
Besides the above mentioned bugs, it also fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990146</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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<pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">In the past, this would for some reason only work sporadically and make ktimezoned utterly confused; now it correctly sets a symlink (instead of copying the file over) from /etc/localtime to the respective file under /usr/share/zoneinfo (as described in "man tzset"). The symlink points to the right location after each save. Launching the module again, it shows the correct timezone, as previously saved. </pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<li>kcontrol/dateandtime/dtime.cpp <span style="color: grey">(518afe5)</span></li>
<li>kcontrol/dateandtime/helper.cpp <span style="color: grey">(9168db3)</span></li>
<li>kcontrol/dateandtime/main.cpp <span style="color: grey">(2fa0f3e)</span></li>
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