[arch-general] setting the time

[Peter Lewis]

On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:25:14 Peter Nikolic wrote:
> I have just found one more that i cant find a way round   , Just
> went to correct the timezone from Europe/Gurnsey to the correct  
> Europe/London but it will not let me sac=ve the changes and does
> not ask for root password or anything ..

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> Well i was in system settings  in kde  as  i amused to doing but i will try
> the /etc/rc.conf method

Hmmm you're right. I'd always assumed that this was some user-specific KDE-
specific timezone variable, but it seems that system settings panel is 
supposed to provide some functionality to change the system-wide timezone. 
However, I also see "You are note allowed to save the configuration".

I have no idea what exactly this configuration pane would actually set if it 
did have permissions. I'm afraid I also don't know how KDE system settings 
panels are supposed to request root permissions to allow settings like this.

It's probably best to stick to the Arch standard way on this (see the wiki 
page on Time).

But, I'm intrigued as to whether or not KDE can request root permissions for 
things like this... anyone know if this should/can work?

Pete.