On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 22:13 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > And I suppose you think that having all of those applications > strftime'ing with arbitrary formatting strings, and then writing those > strings to plain text log files is fine too.
[...] > I'd quite like to leave the 20th century behind, personally. I'm just saying that if you want the timezone stored elsewhere you need to make sure that the C library will pick it up. Do you disagree? (FWIW, it's pretty unclear to me what you mean, but I think you're trying to say that the timezone should be a per-user or per-session property. That's an admirable goal and in line with most of the other work I've personally been involved in doing for GNOME (moving things from system- to session-scope: HAL, NM etc.). For example, one application of this would be a huge central mainframe serving thin clients from multiple locations in different timezones.) I think you just need to realize the world is a helluva lot bigger than GNOME and pure crack like having date(1) return something different than what my GNOME clock shows is just not a viable approach in the real world. David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list