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Re: [opensuse] Missing timezone for Canberra, Australia
- From: Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:44:52 -0500
- Message-id: <1172763892.21510.14.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 02:34 +1100, Darren Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:54, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:13 +1100, Darren Freeman wrote:
> > > That's not really the point, is it? It's unfortunate that there are two
> > > searate lists of timezones but they aren't consistent.
>
> > They are _not_ two seperate timezone lists. The one shown with the KDE
> > clock is just a short list of geographic areas so you can see the
> > approximate time in a region of the world.
>
> The dialog clearly states:
>
> "To change the timezone, select your area from the list below"
>
> and "Current local timezone: Australia/Sydney (EST)"
>
> It doesn't look to me like it's just for viewing timezones, but rather
> for setting them.
>
Well it is for viewing timezones and you can select as many as you like
and then scroll through them with your mouse wheel, try it.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:54, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:13 +1100, Darren Freeman wrote:
> > > That's not really the point, is it? It's unfortunate that there are two
> > > searate lists of timezones but they aren't consistent.
>
> > They are _not_ two seperate timezone lists. The one shown with the KDE
> > clock is just a short list of geographic areas so you can see the
> > approximate time in a region of the world.
>
> The dialog clearly states:
>
> "To change the timezone, select your area from the list below"
>
> and "Current local timezone: Australia/Sydney (EST)"
>
> It doesn't look to me like it's just for viewing timezones, but rather
> for setting them.
>
Well it is for viewing timezones and you can select as many as you like
and then scroll through them with your mouse wheel, try it.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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