clock riddle

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:25 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > [...]> The KDE
> > > clock applet doesn't allow you to change the time (just the timezone)
> > 
> > If that is a global change, and not how time is displayed on this
> > specific desktop, that this is bad enough.
> 
> It isn't. It affects the displayed time on the desktop. The system's
> view of the timezone does not change.

Yes, I was quite sure this only this could and should happen if you
will switch timezone in clockapplet (a very poor cousin of that
would a modification only for a time displayed by _that_ clock).  I
was quite surprised when I found out that /etc/localtime changed.

> AFAIK you can only change the system timezone via the root password.

Not quite if you can start on your system a Gnome desktop session
and you have 'gnome-panel' package installed.  That provides
/usr/libexec/clock-applet.  Log out from a KDE session, change a
session type, login into a Gnome desktop, proceed like above ...

   Michal