Description of problem: I have the Sept 30th rawhide running. When I startx the clock applet shows the wrong time. If I goto a terminal prompt and run date the proper time is displayed. The time the applet shows is 5 hours into the future. The timezone is Central which is 5 hours behing GMT. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-6.fc6.i386.rpm How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
A reinstall of rawhide fixed the problem. Part of the problem is there are two places where you can set UNC, in set date/time in the timezone tab and the prefereneces. Maybe having two spots is the correct thing, I don't know, but it is confusing.
I agree it's not ideal. I think that one of the checkboxes is whether or not the system is configured for UTC and the other is a user preference. We could just make a choice and say that system should always be utc and users can set their offsets from that. Unfortunately, there is no way to store a timezone in the bios, so making that kind of policy decision would break dual boot users. Anyway, it's a hard problem, that we'll have to fix at some point, but probably aren't going to tackle right now, so I'm going to close this bug. I'm glad you got things figure out, though.