Hi,
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <sajolida@???> wrote:
> Then today I realized that a complementary way of looking at the problem
> would be to remove that clock from the desktop.
In the current state of what we have, I agree this would be an
improvement both in terms of security and of user experience.
Chris Doten wrote:
> From a usability perspective accurate local time is really important.
> Folks need to know what time it is and often rely on their computer
> for that. Removing the clock masks that issue but doesn't solve it.
Sure. That would only make the issue have fewer painful consequences.
> Is there a way to let users pick a timezone in the greeter (and
> persist it) and present that to them while using UTC for all the
> behind-the-scenes elements?
It's certainly possible, but I doubt GNOME upstream would happily
merge code that allows users to set their "display timezone"
independently of the system timezone. So this would be a delta we
would have not only to create to start with, but also to maintain
basically forever (be it in the form of a patch against the GNOME
clock applet, or as a custom applet we could write from scratch).
I think we cannot reasonably commit to do this in the current state of
the project, but once Tails is more maintainable (that is, milestones
2.0 and 3.0 on our current roadmap [1]), I hope we can think
of it again.
[1]
https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/roadmap
Cheers,
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