From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: There needs to be an easy way to set GMT as the preferred timezone. Right now, this requires replacing /etc/localtime and editing /etc/sysconfig/clock by hand. If you make these changes manually, and then decide to use system-config-date for something else, your manual changes are overridden by whatever timezone is set in the tool, even if you don't change anything in the Time Zone tab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-date-1.7.13-0.fc3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run system-config-date 2. See that timezones are limited to actual geographic locations. 3. Watch previous manual edits vanish when exiting the tool. Actual Results: Time zone reverted to whatever was selected in the Time Zone tab. Expected Results: This is probably by design. Would be nice to have the tool use Etc/* as selections as well. Additional info: A lot of scientific shops, especially with a global exposure, would appreciate this enhancement.
(In reply to comment #0) > From Bugzilla Helper: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 > > Description of problem: > There needs to be an easy way to set GMT as the preferred timezone. Right now, this requires replacing /etc/localtime and editing /etc/sysconfig/clock by hand. > > If you make these changes manually, and then decide to use system-config-date for something else, your manual changes are overridden by whatever timezone is set in the tool, even if you don't change anything in the Time Zone tab. > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > system-config-date-1.7.13-0.fc3.1 > > How reproducible: > Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Run system-config-date > 2. See that timezones are limited to actual geographic locations. > 3. Watch previous manual edits vanish when exiting the tool. > > > Actual Results: Time zone reverted to whatever was selected in the Time Zone tab. > > Expected Results: This is probably by design. Would be nice to have the tool use Etc/* as selections as well. > > Additional info: > > A lot of scientific shops, especially with a global exposure, would appreciate this enhancement. What I do is to add: UT +0000+00000 UTC to the end of the /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab file. This will create a selection point at 0,0 (lat lon over Atlantic) so you can select UTC for the time zone.
BTW, make sure there are tabs, not spaces between each column.
> Actual Results: Time zone reverted to whatever was selected in the Time Zone tab. this makes it an error, not an enhancement. Pls. change the severity acordingly. BTW: this issue also affects RHEL4
Changes severity to normal from enhancement per comment #3 above. Thank you, Florian.
system-config-date-1.7.99.14 allows UTC, GMT and GMT relative timezones.