[RFC] KDE4 generic timezone support

[Thiago Macieira]

Shaheed wrote:
>I've been thinking that KDE4 ought to support the idea of per-user
> timezones at least on systems which support Posix-like multi-user
> semantics. Thus, in addition to kdebase/kcontrol/clock which can conrol
> the system default timezone, it ought to be possible for each logged in
> user to set his own timeone in an unprivileged manner.
>
>Thus, the idea would be to create something invoked from startkde's
> handling of $KDEHOME/env/*.sh, say $KDEHOME/env/timezone.sh. Thee
> contents would be set to something like:
>
>export TZ=Europe/Paris
[snip]
>Thoughts? Shaheed

Good idea.

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1. On frumscafte, hwonne time_t wæs náht, se scieppend þone circolwyrde 
wundorcræftlíge cennede and seo eorðe wæs idel and hit wæs gód.
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