Review Request 108727: ktimezoned: Watch /etc/localtime if it doesn't exist yet.

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This review has been submitted with commit 7a42d977c90a5f0f387d170745e8a7b01f7d9675 by Kevin Kofler to branch KDE/4.10.

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On Feb. 3, 2013, 4:30 a.m., Kevin Kofler wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 3, 2013, 4:30 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Runtime and David Jarvie.
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> Description
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> /etc/localtime legitimately might not exist. The default is then UTC. But the file can then be created later, so watch for its creation.
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> If we don't do this, when setting the time zone for the first time using kcm_clock, the initially set time zone will fail to get reloaded and the dialog will unexpectedly jump back to UTC.
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> This problem shows up on Fedora 18, see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906972
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> Please note that to test the fix with kcm_clock, you also need the kcm_clock (kde-workspace) fix from:
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108711/
> (which is already approved and which I'll push to KDE/4.10 and merge to master as soon as the 4.10.0 tagging freeze is lifted).
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> Diffs
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>   ktimezoned/ktimezoned.cpp 4eafa4e 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108727/diff/
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> Testing
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> Builds against at least 4.10.0 and 4.9.5.
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> Works at runtime (and appears to fix the bug): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906972#c5
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> Thanks,
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> Kevin Kofler
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