On Mar 27, 2005 10:02 AM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am So, den 27.03.2005 schrieb Jens Ruda um 15:49: > > My server (Fedora Core 3) need to use UTC, but I can't select UTC in > > Timezone Selection (system-config-date). In Fedora Core 1 UTC exist in the > > timezone list, but not in FC3. Why? > > On FC2 this choice exist too in the GUI tool. Have no FC3 with X to > check that there. You may edit the configuration file manually: > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/clock > ZONE="Europe/Berlin" The actual UTC timezone is called "Etc/UTC" (this is specified in the tzdata-2005f package sources). Of course there may be many timezones that are functionally equivalent to each other. (There are also other alias names such as "UTC" and "Etc/Universal"; but "Etc/UTC" is the canonical one). The reason it's not showing up in the system-config-date is that the GUI gets the list of zones to show from the /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab, which lists only some of the timezones, along with latitude/longitude coordinates of that zone's representative city (e.g., New York City for the America/New_York zone). The Etc/UTC zone has no single latitude, and thus no representative city (Greenwich is for GMT, not UTC); so it's not in the zone.tab. And that means it is omitted from the GUI list. It's arguable that system-config-date should forcibly always include Etc/UTC in it's list even though it's not in the zone.tab file....maybe you can file a bugzilla bug requesting that? Perhaps a comment from the tzdata sources explains why Etc/UTC may be considered unimportant, # These entries [Etc/*] are mostly present for historical reasons, so that # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" # to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the # tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little # need now for the entries that are not on UTC. But it you read carefully it says all Etc/*, except Etc/UTC, are probably not needed. So I think it makes sense that Etc/UTC itself should be included in the GUI. But since it has no single geographical point, it would make the map handling a little complex. Remember, there's nothing keeping you from putting whatever zone you want into your /etc/sysconfig/clock file as the ZONE="..." variable. -- Deron Meranda
