#12033 NORM Not Tri: Time Zone set in Sugar is absent in Gnome in 12.1.0

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#12033: Time Zone set in Sugar is absent in Gnome in 12.1.0
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           Reporter:  ghunt     |       Owner:  dsd                              
               Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
          Component:  distro    |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:            |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  diagnose  |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:            |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:            |  
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Changes (by greenfeld):

  * owner:  => dsd
  * next_action:  never set => diagnose
  * component:  not assigned => distro


Comment:

 To the best of my understanding, Sugar intentionally only does a local
 time zone change meant to be seen while Sugar is running.

 If GNOME used to use the same mechanism and picked up on this, then this
 is a regression.  Otherwise GNOME used to have control panels to set this,
 and does not in our builds for 12.1.0.

 Setting the system time zone globally historically has been done by
 setting /etc/localtime to be a copy or symlink to the desired zoneinfo
 file.  This approach should still work as long as Sugar's setting is set
 to match.

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