Discovering the XOs local timezone in a bash script

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Paul Fox's message of Sun Mar 13 13:04:30 +0100 2011:

>  > Can you point me at that old code, please? (we currently use gconf [1],
>  > so Sugar is decoupled from the rest of the system w.r.t. time zone).

> do you know why this is/was done?  is it simply a matter of not
> wanting the sugar user to do root-like things?

All the history I could find was that using gconf for storing the time
zone was introduced in "Use gconf for the profile" [1] and the control
panel section that used the profile to modify the time zone was added in
"Landed the graphical frontend for the control panel" [2]. The
corresponding profile code is in "Add control panel items to profile" [3].
There was no indication of Sugar setting the system-wide time zone.


> p.s.  either my mailer did something very odd, or your message had a
> surprising set of addressees.  intentional?
>  cc: C.Scott at flatty.sascha.silbe.org, Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>,
>      A.Smith at flatty.sascha.silbe.org,
>      OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>,
>      Richard at flatty.sascha.silbe.org, richard at laptop.org

Thanks for the heads-up. With every "new" MUA I seem to hit the same
issue of real names containing periods (".") [4,5] again. According to
the RFC822 / RFC2822 / RFC5322 rules these need to be quoted (periods
are not part of the "atom" production rule). Some MUAs don't quote them
and some MTAs (most notably nullmailer) start a new list component when
they hit an unquoted period in the display-name part of the mailbox-list
production rule. :-/

Sascha

[1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/8361ca82ae89ce8b038a4faa8274b2b88cfe81a6
[2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/9ac7db79d130893116bf3fc063b867f9c8cfcf4e
[3] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit/mainline/commit/4bdddfd20d8cb3f76ff03ab196dd5229f166bd75
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/142929
[5] http://lists.untroubled.org/?list=nullmailer&cmd=threadindex&month=200204&threadid=gaglkmijhgnbgcihnepi
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