[time-admin] Can't change timezone

[Tom Harris]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

I am unable to change my time-zone using time-admin on an up-to-date Karmic system. Here's how to reproduce:

1. My time-zone is incorrectly set to Europe/London:
tom@tom-desktop:~$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/London
2. System -> Administration -> Time and Date
3. I click the keychain symbol to make changes
4. My timezone is listed as "." (see first screenshot)
5. I change it to Europe/Amsterdam.
6. It is now listed as ". Europe/Amsterdam" (note the leading period, this may be a separate bug; see second screenshot).
7. I click close
8. The time has not changed, moreover, my time zone is still set to London:
tom@tom-desktop:~$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/London
9. I am an hour late for work.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 14 21:13:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/time-admin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686