Bugzilla – Bug 462491
No Phoenix time for clock applet
Last modified: 2009-02-11 15:40:42 UTC
I live in Phoenix, Arizona... here, we do not change the time zone. Half the year we are Pacific Standard Time, half the year we are Mountain Standard Time. In various places, you cannot choose Arizona as the time zone (installer, time configuration etc.) This ordinarily wouldn't be an issue, but it is currently breaking the clock applet. When I try to add my location, it finds the correct town (deer valley) however there is no time zone applicable to this setting, so it cannot load the location. This works in other distros, so it is specific to OpenSUSE... it would be appreciated if you could add Arizona to any time zone details on the system, thank you.
The gnome clock actually has several phoenix locations in it. Re-assigning to Yast for the install/yast pieces.
Reassigning to yast2-country maintainer.
JP, yes, it has several Phoenix locations, however, if you actually select one, it cannot find a time zone for them... thus they do not function - ie, they can't actually be added. It seems sane however for this to be a yast issue, as its the only thing that isn't applicable to Ubuntu or Fedora - both of which this works fine with.
How could it be YaST issue? I _can_ select America/Phoenix time zone in YaST time zone module. Could you do it? If you select it in YaST, is the time correct (regardless various applets, just if 'date' shows the correct time).
Created attachment 264615 [details] screenshot of yast2 timezone with America/Phoenix selected
Any news?
no response...
Jiri, I never filed this on YaST, it is related to the clock applet, which is what it was originally filed on. However, the only difference I know of between how OpenSUSE and other distros handle the time is YaST so I certainly understand why it could be YaST... This bug is NOT resolved currently - reopening. Why would you close a bug that you can test yourself and get the same results though? I fail to see how my input is required for testing here, just fire up Gnome and try to set Phoenix - Deer Valley as your location... it will never take it. I suspect it is because of something openSUSE removed from upstream to accomodate use of YaST...
Created attachment 268817 [details] screenshot Well, I wrote how could I set the desired time zone via YaST and asked if you could do it to which I got no response... So I tried the applet - is this one at the screenshot what do you have in mind? It has nothing to do with YaST.
Yes, that is where I mean... but for Phoenix - Deer Valley As I stated, I wasn't the one that set this on yast, I am also the person that set it back on GNOME... (there doesn't seem to be a listing for gnome-applets) Sorry for the inconvenience Jiri, hopefully a Gnome dev will notice this again soon. As I stated though, the only difference between OpenSUSE and other distros where this works fine is YaST though, so it has to be related to YaST imo.
This is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559031 Note that Phoenix seems to be working in my 2.25 GNOME.