When I try to adjust the timezone in system-config-date and click [OK], it just pops up an NTP dialog and then goes back to the dialog. If I disable NTP, clicking the [OK] button does nothing. If I close the window with the [X] window manager button then my changes get dropped, so there is no way right now to change my timezone using system-config-date.
I ran it again from a terminal and got this output when I clicked [OK]: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-date/scdMainWindow.py", line 78, in ok_clicked self.apply () File "/usr/share/system-config-date/scdMainWindow.py", line 191, in apply self.timezoneBackend.writeConfig(timezone, utc, arc) File "/usr/share/system-config-date/timezoneBackend.py", line 52, in writeConfig shutil.copyfile(fromFile, "/etc/localtime") File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 46, in copyfile fsrc = open(src, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New York' creating a symlink from New_York in that directory to a New\ York made everything start working.
*** Bug 235366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
should be fixed in system-config-date-1.8.94