should be possible to display other timezone without changing system timezone
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Indicator Date and Time |
Incomplete
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Wishlist
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Matthew Paul Thomas | ||
indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I just upgraded and switched to Unity, and I'm trying to set things up like I had them before.
I've always kept my system clocks in UTC, and set the TZ environment variable for local time in ~/.bashrc (affecting everything in my user account). This provides sanity both for logs and for mounting DOS filesystems from, e.g., a camera (whose clock I also keep in UTC, and thus don't have to change when traveling or for summer time).
I'd like to be able to display a clock in the menu bar that shows my user time zone *without* having it change the system clock. Ideally it would do this by learning the timezone the way pretty much every other app does, and like the GNOME 2 clock applet does. I'd be ok if it could do it some other way.
(I'd think this would also be useful for things like VNC sessions.)
Steps to reproduce:
1. make /etc/timezone contain the string "UTC"
2. put "export TZ=America/
3. log in
4. click gear icon in upper right corner -> system settings -> time & date -> clock -> check "show a clock in the menu bar"
5. set (above) -> time & date -> time & date -> Location to America/Los_Angeles instead of UTC
Actual results:
4. clock shows UTC rather than PST
5. /etc/timezone file gets changed
Expected results:
At least have some option that lets me show PST without causing /etc/timezone to change
Changed in indicator-datetime: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in indicator-datetime: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in indicator-datetime: | |
assignee: | nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) |
Marking incomplete for indicator-datetime pending feedback from Design