#2684 NORM Untriag: No way to set the timezone or the time or the time format, but the journal shows timestamps on everything

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#2684: No way to set the timezone or the time or the time format, but the journal
shows timestamps on everything
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  Reporter:  gnu          |       Owner:  hal      
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Untriaged
 Component:  sugar        |     Version:  Build 542
Resolution:               |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 There is something to be said for manually dragging the hour hand of a
 clock. The TZ environment variable gets set to something like OLPC+5:45 or
 OLPC+14. (an arbitrary name and an offset from UTC) You need 15-minute
 increments to handle Nepal and offsets over 12 to handle New Zealand, so
 the minute hand and date must move as well. Of course you don't get to
 mess with UTC; that comes from NTP.

 This avoids the whole complicated geography issue, and the ugly situation
 of maps having political boundries that may be offensive or illegal.

 Daylight saving time, if any, would handled just as on a wall clock. You
 drag the hour hand twice a year. This was even standard on PCs for over a
 dozen years.

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