Date & Time panel not actually changing timezone

[Charlie]

Selecting a new timezone in the new Sugar Control Panel's "Date & Time" pane doesn't actually change the timezone.

After restarting sugar, the Date & Time panel has the correct timezone highlighted, but running the 'date' command in a terminal still displays GMT. This is still the case after shutting the laptop down and restarting it.

[joe]

Charlie,

What Joyride # did you test?

Joe

[kimquirk]

please retest in latest joyride.

[Charlie]

Just tested again on joyride-2263. Still experiencing this issue.

Original test was on joyride-2200.

[erikos]

What is the component 'control panel' ? This is a sugar bug. And it did not came to my attention because the component was not assigned before :(

I know what the issue is and will fix it.

[erikos]

diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/main.py
index 38da54e..cd6f8cc 100644
--- a/src/main.py
+++ b/src/main.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def main():
         gtk.main()
 
     # set timezone    
-    if os.environ.has_key('TZ'):    
+    if get_profile().timezone is not None:
         os.environ['TZ'] = get_profile().timezone
 
     if os.environ.has_key("SUGAR_TP_DEBUG"):

I don't even think we need to check if the profile has the timezone member since we set it to "UTC" by default before reading the config in. But we need for sure remove the has_key('TZ') check.

[erikos]

|TestCase|

Change the timezone in the control panel. Restart sugar. Open the terminal activity and check if the timezone is set correctly. The environment variable TZ should be set 'echo $TZ' and the command 'date' should have picked up the right timezone.

[erikos]

Pushed to master and 0.82

[garycmartin]

Tested on an XO B4 build 759, working for me, fab :-)

[Stephan]

I have the same Problem on Build 767, Modifiying the date/timezone in sugar control panel doesent change anithing "date" command is still displaying UTC but the time display is is actually UTC-2 Im operating Build 767, Sugar 0.82.1, Firmware Q2E18 Langugae is set to German (Germany)

I've found the following workaround

1. from terminal become root 2. copy your timezoneinfo from /usr/share/zoneinfo/.... to /etc/localtime 3. sync to ntp and set hw-clock or reboot system and wait a few minutes 4. open terminal and check date (should be the same wrong time as before) 5. become root and check date again (should be your correct local time) 6. now go to sugar control-panel and set the timezone to the same item as manually in step 2 7. reboot system, user time should now be set to local time