Public bug reported:
I just upgraded and switched to Unity, and I'm trying to set things up
like I had them before.
I've always kept my system clocks in UTC, and set the TZ environment
variable for local time in ~/.bashrc (affecting everything in my user
account). This provides sanity both for logs and for mounting DOS
filesystems from, e.g., a camera (whose clock I also keep in UTC, and
thus don't have to change when traveling or for summer time).
I'd like to be able to display a clock in the menu bar that shows my
user time zone *without* having it change the system clock. Ideally it
would do this by learning the timezone the way pretty much every other
app does, and like the GNOME 2 clock applet does. I'd be ok if it could
do it some other way.
(I'd think this would also be useful for things like VNC sessions.)
Steps to reproduce:
1. make /etc/timezone contain the string "UTC"
2. put "export TZ=America/Los_Angeles" in ~/.bashrc
3. log in
4. click gear icon in upper right corner -> system settings -> time & date ->
clock -> check "show a clock in the menu bar"
5. set (above) -> time & date -> time & date -> Location to
America/Los_Angeles instead of UTC
Actual results:
4. clock shows UTC rather than PST
5. /etc/timezone file gets changed
Expected results:
At least have some option that lets me show PST without causing /etc/timezone
to change
** Affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
should be possible to display other timezone without changing system
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