#5547 NORM Retriag: setting timezone requires su to root

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#5547: setting timezone requires su to root
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  Reporter:  blahedo  |       Owner:  erikos                     
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                        
  Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  Retriage, Please!          
 Component:  sugar    |     Version:  Build 650                  
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  control panel timezone root
  Verified:  0        |    Blocking:                             
 Blockedby:           |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:2 erikos]:
 > Well it is writing to the system file /etc/timezone and we discussed
 some time ago that this is ok like that. If someone has an arguable
 solution other than that. Otherwise...

 Setting the TZ environment variable will override that. The /etc/timezone
 file could be left in UTC.

 Note that emumerated zones are only required for automatic daylight
 savings transitions. A time zone of "OLPC+5:30" is perfectly valid, and
 could be chosen by dragging the hands of a clock.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5547#comment:4>
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