KDED time zone module

[Thiago Macieira]

David Jarvie wrote:
>The main problem here is that there won't be a name other than "local
> zone" to display in user-visible text, or to save as the identity of
> the time zone which a date/time is measured in. 

That's exactly my point: there should be no name other than "Local System 
Timezone".

> So in a time zone 
> selection combo box, for example. "Local zone" would appear together
> with all the named time zones, and the user may not necessarily know
> which named zone was equivalent if using somebody else's computer or a
> computer far from home. Valid iCalendar file entries couldn't be
> written, for example, because when a time zone is being used, it has to
> be written with an unambiguous name. If you sent a meeting invitation
> to somebody in another time zone with "local zone" specified for the
> time, it wouldn't show correctly in the invitee's calendar. No doubt
> there are other examples where the time zone name is essential.

I don't know how iCalendar works, but you can't send just the name and 
assume the other side has the same data as you. The file on the other 
side may simply not exist. Shouldn't iCalendar transmit the timezone 
information for the relevant dates?

Unless there's a database of canonical iCalendar timezones that is 
not /usr/share/zoneinfo. But even in that case, you still can't assume 
the system localtime (/etc/localtime or $TZ) map to any file 
in /usr/share/zoneinfo.

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