[Panel-devel] [Bug 154102] timezone assumed to be UTC in clock, no way to tell it otherwise

[jamese]

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------- Additional Comments From james.ellis gmail com  2007-12-16 14:48 -------
Hi Alex

I logged in as K4 again and went through the steps. The 10 second thing isn't exactly 10 seconds - it's when the clock ticks over to the next minute - e.g it went from 08:30 to 19:31 with the "local" panel clock staying as 00:30 to 00:31.

Here's some results from tailing the .xsession_errors file:

Step 1 (panel clock check "show timezone"
plasma(25844) KTimeZoneWidget::setSelected: No such zone:  "Local"
plasma(25844) Clock::configAccepted: Timezone unknown:  ()
plasma(25844) Clock::configAccepted: Timezone unknown:  ()

Steps 2-9
plasma(25844) KTimeZoneWidget::setSelected: No such zone:  "Local"
plasma(25844) KTimeZoneWidget::setSelected: No such zone:  "Local"
plasma(25844) Clock::configAccepted: Timezone unknown:  ()
plasma(25844) Clock::configAccepted: Timezone unknown:  ()
plasma(25844) KTimeZoneWidget::setSelected: No such zone:  "Local"


Here is everything that has ktimezoned in it, weirdly my /etc/timezone file has the text "User defined" in it...

$ grep -i ktimezoned .xsession-errors
kded(25802)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::addEntry: Added File "/usr/lib/kde4/share/kde4/services/kded/ktimezoned.desktop" for "" ["KDirWatch-1"]
kded(25802)/ktimezoned KTimeZoned::checkTimezone: checkTimezone()
kded(25802)/ktimezoned KTimeZoned::checkTimezone: checkTimezone(): /etc/timezone opened
kded(25802)/ktimezoned KTimeZoned::checkTimezone: checkTimezone(): local= false , name= "User defined"
kded(25802)/ktimezoned KTimeZoned::findLocalZone: /etc/localtime:  "/etc/localtime"
kded(25802)/kded4 Kded::loadModule: Successfully loaded module "ktimezoned"


$ cat /etc/timezone
User defined

So I guess if the timezone can't be found - in my case "User defined" is no help -then it defaults to UTC.
I'm wondering why the second clock shows the correct time though until the update kicks in - maybe it is getting the correct timezone from somewhere.

In regards to recompiling with the patch, you'll have to excuse me as I am only an egg when it comes to that. Is it at all possible using Kubuntu packages ?

Cheers
James