Re: gnome clock - relies on up-to-date zoneinfo

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 3/30/06, Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com> 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