Re: ubuntu breezy and local time

On 22 Sep 2005, [email protected] wrote:

> I am using preview release of Ubuntu Breezy. After a lot of effort I
> was able to teach KDE that my timezone is US/New York. I don't seem to
> be able to tell that to windowmaker. When I log into windowmaker the
> time in wmclock is that of UTC.

Why do you need to teach KDE your timezone? It should work out of the
box. Time zone is a system function and not the resposibility of either
a window manager or DE. The timezone is set by either symlinking or
copying the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo to the file
/etc/localtime and all programs will display the time correctly unless
it is a very old program. For older programs to work, create a directory
called /usr/lib/zoneinfo and issue this command:

     ln -s /etc/localtime /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime

Here is some more info:

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html

Charles

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