Darren J. Moffat wrote:
> I don't think setting at login time is the correct solution.  It should be 
> resetable at any time, and you can do this with zic(1).  The problem is the 
> GNOME clock applet and some applications (such as Thunderbird) don't auto 
> update and need to get restarted.  Compare this to MacOS X where it is 
> instant everywhere.
> 
> Why not login time ?  Well suspend and resume is comming soon and it is quite 
> possible that I'll stay logged in for weeks at a time and cross timezones 
> without a logout.
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Changing the system time is just wrong; we need a way to
have a "rubber" timezone then.  I want logs, etc, to
remain ordered in the "systems" view of time; having
/var/log/* files out of order because we're monkeying with
the system clock to get the desktop time right is backwards.

If we can handle daylight savings time, we can have a traveling
time zone for desktops.

- Bart


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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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