[kde-linux] KDE + Time Zones + Daylight-saving-time

[David Jarvie]

On Friday 23 February 2007 17:43:19 Alain M. wrote:
> David Jarvie escreveu:
> > Different systems vary, but one of the standard ways of setting the
> > system time zone is to copy the appropriate time zone file from
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo (which is a standard location for time zones to be
> > stored - nothing to do with KDE) into /etc/localtime. If KDE is actually
> > setting the _system_ time zone as opposed to the individual user's time
> > zone, this copying to /etc/localtime is to be expected - it will be done
> > by the standard process which KDE uses to set the system time zone. If
> > you have previously customised /etc/localtime, your customisation will
> > therefore be overwritten when KDE sets the system time zone.
>
> That is exaclty what is happening, now I changed the file that KDE
> copies to /etc/localtime and it is stable.
>
> What I am looking for is where KDE has the information of which file to
> copy for each timezone. KDE's list of timezones is not that one, it has
> a icon (flag) comments and a link to the file to copy...

The file zone.tab in the zoneinfo directory contains a list of all the 
zoneinfo time zone definition files, including which country they relate to. 
KDE presumably uses that information to display flags and comments.

-- 
David Jarvie.