GUI for setting timezone

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jun 12 14:16:01 CEST 2018



On 06/12/2018 05:58 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Igor Zakharov <f2404 at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> 12.06.2018, 03:17, "Lars Behrens" <lars.behrens at kit.edu>:
>>> So IMO the fastest way to set the timezone is to change the symlink
>>> (as root).
>>>
>>> ln -sf /usr/share/[YourZone]/[YourCity] /etc/localtime
>> Another option is using systemd's timedatectl:
>>
>> timedatectl set-timezone US/Eastern
>>
> FWIW: I sent a patch series ages ago [1] but that was rejected with
> something like 'nobody needs such thing'. Since then I use it more or
> less daily and maintain it for Openembedded/Yocto builds [2], I won't
> work for 4.13 / GTK3 but once I have some cycles left I will port.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10354

I added a comment to this.

> [2] https://github.com/schnitzeltony/xfce4-settings/tree/for-oe-4.12.3
>
> Cheers
>
> Andreas
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