#7637 LOW 8.2.0 (: Date & Time panel not actually changing timezone

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#7637: Date & Time panel not actually changing timezone
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           Reporter:  Charlie   |       Owner:  erikos                        
               Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened                      
           Priority:  low       |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)          
          Component:  sugar     |     Version:  not specified                 
         Resolution:            |    Keywords:  blocks:8.2.0 joyride-2330:+ r+
        Next_action:  finalize  |    Verified:  0                             
Deployment_affected:            |   Blockedby:                                
           Blocking:            |  
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Changes (by Stephan):

  * priority:  blocker => low
  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 I have the same Problem on Build 767,
 Modifiying the date/timezone in sugar control panel doesent change
 anithing "date" command is still displaying UTC but the time display is is
 actually UTC-2
 Im operating Build 767, Sugar 0.82.1, Firmware Q2E18
 Langugae is set to German (Germany)

 I've found the following workaround

 1. from terminal become root
 2. copy your timezoneinfo from /usr/share/zoneinfo/.... to /etc/localtime
 3. sync to ntp and set hw-clock or reboot system and wait a few minutes
 4. open terminal and check date (should be the same wrong time as before)
 5. become root and check date again (should be your correct local time)
 6. now go to sugar control-panel and set the timezone to the same item as
 manually in step 2
 7. reboot system, user time should now be set to local time

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7637#comment:16>
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