the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.
As stated above, the answer for an individual without admin rights is : If you don't have administrator rights on your laptop, you can ask the administrator to grant you the rights for the org.gnome.clock.mechanism.settimezone PolicyKit action, but this decision can't be made by Ubuntu. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696115 Title: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs