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

[David Jarvie]

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------- Additional Comments From djarvie kde org  2007-12-17 15:11 -------
The reason that it decides that /etc/localtime corresponds to the time zone "/etc/localtime" is that it can't find a match between the contents of /etc/localtime and one of the time zone definition files in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Normally /etc/localtime is either a symlink to one of those files, or a copy of one. Time zone definition files don't themselves contain the name of the time zone - the time zone name is normally the relative path starting from /usr/share/zoneinfo. Because there is no match, the absolute path name is used as the zone name, for want of any better information.

This suggests that /etc/localtime may not have been installed in a standard way.