Sorry. Let me be a bit more formal.
I suggest that laptops are either:
1) single user
* in which case changing the time zone won't hurt other users,
or
2) physically shared amongst several people
* in which case, they are in the same time zone, and if one user sets the
zone, that is a positive benefit to other users,
Occasionally, they might be
3) multi-user, shared amongst a small cooperating group of users. In which
case if someone fools with the time zone, you send them a nasty e-mail.
And they will very rarelyl be used as servers occupied by untrusted
users out to cause trouble.
In use cases 1 and 2, changing time zones is a real benefit. In 3, it
is largely harmless.
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Timezone should not require superuser on laptop
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