[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  2007-12-17 07:35 -------
Hi Alex

$ ls -l /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 2007-10-13 08:49 /etc/localtime

Out of interest, in KDE3.5 the Date/Time System Settings admin give "Currie Australia AU Tasmania King - Island" as my system timezone - for some unknown reason. If I set the timezone in KDE3.5 then it updates /etc/timezone correctly - haven't checked KDE4 yet.

Anyways, I did some grepping and had a look at the tzdata.config script for that deb package as installed on the system, grepped for "User defined" and hey presto there it is:

350         echo "User defined" > /etc/timezone
...
389         if grep -q "^User defined$" /etc/timezone 2>/dev/null ; then
390             rm -f /etc/timezone
391         fi

So it seems to be the result of a misconfigured package install (debconf) or an error in that script.

Given the tzdata.config script I'm not sure if this is unqiue to my system, I'll leave you to mark the bug as you please.

Hope this helps and thanks
James