On 3/30/06, Rod Butcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me there is a weakness in the way gnome clock relies upon the > user to maintain an up-to-date zoneinfo file, in order to switch to/from > daylight saving. Example : here in Australia, we have politicians who > fiddle with daylight saving dates whenever we host a major international > event. So we getstuck with a zoneinfo file that was accurate when we > installed Linux, but may be wrong this year (in this case, Sydney due to > Commonwealth Games). Result - clock is out by 1 hr for a few weeks, user > goes mad. > Proposed solution - when user turns ntp on and specifies a time server, > the clock applet should download a suitable zoneinfo file and run zic. > Rod
Sounds like something worthy of filing a bug report. ;-) Cheers, Elijah _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
