--- El lun 16-may-11, Ionut Biru <[email protected]> escribió: > De: Ionut Biru <[email protected]> > Asunto: Re: [arch-projects] [initscripts][RFC] deprecating TIMEZONE from > rc.conf > Para: > Cc: "Arch Linux projects development discussion" > <[email protected]>, "Public mailing list for Arch Linux > development" <[email protected]> > Fecha: lunes, 16 de mayo de 2011, 16:21 > On 05/16/2011 09:28 PM, Tom Gundersen > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > hi, > i'm forwarding this on our arch-dev-public ml for > higher audience > > > I think the TIMEZONE variable in rc.conf is > unnecessary and it causes > > some problems with other (especially GUI) tools. I'd > like to hear what > > you think about deprecating it. We will still keep the > support for it > > in initscripts, but we will suggest (in the standard > rc.conf) to not > > set it. It will then be up to the maintainer of our > installer(s) and > > documentation to adopt (or not) this suggestion. > > > > i found that deprecating this option will make the set up a > bit more > complicated and i don't really want to copy/symlink or run > tzselect > manually. > > > I cc'ed the GNOME/KDE/XFCE maintainers as I would be > interested to > > hear if their timezone tools work well with rc.conf (I > think not, but > > I might have missed something). I also cc'ed aif and > archboot > > maintainers. Please forward if you know of anyone who > maintains > > relevant packages that I left out. > > > > gnome is perfectly capable to do this, with or without > asking an > administrator password. For the later we need some > adjustment to polkit > rules. > > we shouldn't focus only on gnome/kde/xfce since they are > fully featured > desktop environments and have tools for setting the > date/time/. > > What about minimal setups, they don't have any tools like > that and they > need to do it manually and is an additional step that is > not needed in > my opinion. >
With timezone I have a more strong points: 1) System should use UTC. 2) Daemons should use UTC (logger, cron, ...) 3) TZ should be set per user not system-wide.
