Re: New clock applet for 2.22

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

And I suppose you think that having all of those applications strftime'ing with arbitrary formatting strings, and then writing those strings to plain text log files is fine too.

I'd quite like to leave the 20th century behind, personally.

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:57 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 21:33 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 16:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: 
> > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:56 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: 
> > > > > 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.
> > > > GConf 
> > > 
> > > You're more than welcome to try but I doubt think Ulrich will accept
> > > such a patch for glibc.
> > Who cares about glibc? 
>
> Oh, you know, for starters I do. And I like the fact that other programs
> using the C library gets the same local time as is displayed on my
> panel. This, btw, includes all the existing apps written for GNOME
> already; they all, in one way or another, end up using the C library for
> this kind of stuff.
>
> Changing /etc/localtime from a desktop app is far from a new concept;
> lots of Linux distributions been doing it for years (system-config-date,
> yast, many others etc.) the only proposal here is to move all these bits
> into an upstream project, GNOME, so all the distributions can share the
> maintenance burden and we have deep integration with the desktop.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what we're discussing here or what your point is.
>
>       David