Re: Getting country code from gnome clock?



ke, 2008-06-04 kello 21:44 +0300, Antti Kaijanmäki kirjoitti:
> ke, 2008-06-04 kello 15:40 +0200, Vincent Untz kirjoitti:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Le mercredi 04 juin 2008, à 16:14 +0300, Antti Kaijanmäki a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Is there a way of getting the timezone out of gnome clock? I need in
> > 
> > It depends what you mean by "the timezone" and "get the timezone" :-)
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply. I was kinda sure I'm not making my self
> clear ;P
> 
> 
> > The timezones displayed in the clock are saved in gconf:
> > /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/cities (where you'll have to
> > replace clock_screen0 by something else, depending on your
> > configuration)
> > 
> > > particular the code of the country the user has selected. I'm developing
> > > a program[1] that could automatically choose a country from a list based
> > > on this knowledge.
> > 
> > Ok, so look at /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/cities (you'll
> > have to look at all "directories" below /apps/panel/applets to find the
> > ones where bonobo_iid is OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet), find the location
> > for which current is set to true, get the timezone for this location and
> > then use /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab to get the country code for this
> > timezeon, and /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab to get the english human
> > readable name for this country.
> 
> OK. I got it now. So these are the locations that have been selected for
> the world clock, right? 'cities' key was empty, because I haven't
> selected any city.
> 
> The information I'm after is the setting that can be found under <right
> click> + "set date and time" and there is this Timezone drop-down list
> (at least in Ubuntu 8.04) and it's containing the timezone information
> that was set during the installation (from the cute zooming world map
> which has those blinking dots). Where is that information stored?

OK.. sometimes it's just too obvious..

   /etc/timezone

Thank you and good night. 

>  -- Antti
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