Discovering the XOs local timezone in a bash script

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Well, 'My Settings' -> 'Date & Time' allows the user to specify the
local timezone (I always do this) - but I'm not sure which routines
actually make use of that setting.

It can be extracted by (all on one line):  gconftool-2 --direct
 --config-source=xml:readwrite:/home/olpc/.gconf/desktop/sugar/date
 --get /timezone

but then you have to decode that string ( e.g., America/Chicago ).

mikus