#11004 NORM Future : no post-build way to change timezone in GNOME

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#11004: no post-build way to change timezone in GNOME
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 Reporter:  dsd            |                 Owner:  martin.langhoff
     Type:  defect         |                Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal         |             Milestone:  Future Release 
Component:  gnome-desktop  |               Version:  not specified  
 Keywords:  dsd-11.3.0?    |           Next_action:  design         
 Verified:  0              |   Deployment_affected:                 
Blockedby:                 |              Blocking:                 
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 As pointed out in #10605, our post-build timezone change UI (in Sugar)
 does not affect GNOME.

 Initial steps to be taken to tackle this bug:

 1. Look at how timezone changing under GNOME works on a regular F14
 desktop, and if we can do the same thing sensibly in the Sugar control
 panel (I'm assuming that this changes the system timezone in a way that
 does not require direct root access)

 2. Look at how timezone changing under GNOME works on a regular F15
 desktop. I suspect it is different from F14 as GNOME3 had a lot of rework
 in this area. See if this is a viable option for us for the future.

 3. Investigate reading of Sugar's gconf timezone key from the GNOME
 codepath in olpc-session, where $TZ could be set appropriately during
 startup. If the regular-Fedora methods are not appropriate for us, this
 probably wouldn't be too hard or ugly to implement.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11004>
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