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

[Scott Bronson <bronson rinspin com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:19 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 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.  ;-)

Yeah, file it against Australia's bugzilla for having such an arbitrary
and perverse time policy!

If Australia doesn't have a bugzilla then I guess it belongs on
bugs.gnome.org.

    - Scott