Re: New clock applet for 2.22

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 9/25/07, Alex Jones <alex weej com> wrote:
>
>  I am still unsure as to why there even needs to be a concept of "system
> time". "System time" should just be UTC, surely.
>
>  If anonymous things like GDM need a local time to present to the user, then
> we should point it at a configurable user profile. This could serve for font
> settings etc., too.

Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem how you get every random
piece of software to pick up the newly chosen timezone. Unless you
write it to /etc/localtime.