Maxim Kammerer:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>> Someone just suggested a quite simpler solution that I had missed: to
>> run the clock applet with TZ set accordingly to the region chosen in
>> the greeter.
>
> This thread is too painful to watch. Next thing you will “discover” is
> that the default clock applet is actually a shared library plugin for
> gnome-panel, and that setting TZ for gnome-panel won't work because
> the variable propagates to launched applications. You will then
> possibly think of running a distinct applet via a wrapper, like this:
> https://github.com/mkdesu/liberte/blob/master/src/home/anon/bin/wrappers/epiphany
>
> Hopefully, I saved you guys some time in navigating through the
> complex and not too newbie-friendly world of Linux. Good luck! :)
Looks like you solved it the other way around. You essentially
implemented "everything local timezone, except epiphany gets UTC".
What about other applications which may leak the time zone?
I think the opposite solution "everything UTC, except the clock applet"
would be a safer solution.
