I apologize; I think the code that sets timezone "correctly" might have been code I wrote for litl, not OLPC. --scott
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > On 13 March 2011 03:21, Samuel Greenfeld <greenf...@laptop.org> wrote: >> Sugar reports only relative times in its core GUI, so I don't know how >> common it is for deployments or other users to actually change this >> setting. Setting a time zone other than UTC with 10.1.3 and prior may >> also expose a flaw where the offset is repetitively applied every >> reboot, shifting the clock. > > Just to remove any doubt.. > Setting the time zone from the control panel doesn't have any adverse > effects such as the clock shift described above. This is is because > sugar's time zone is isolated from the rest of the system as described > here. > > Setting a different timezone on the system level will cause problems > on existing builds, but there is no UI for this, and this is fixed in > 11.2.0 (with a "UI" now available via olpc-os-builder configuration > setting). > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
