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Show UTC as a location in Gnome International Clock
Written by Dan
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
I love the new international clock applet in Gnome. It makes it easy to see a list of alternate time zones for coordinating with colleagues. However, it seems to be missing the ability to add UTC as a timezone. UTC, GMT, and Zulu are missing from the zone list, even though they're present in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Attempting to add a zone manually just results in a silent failure for some reason.
I'm sure there is a less insane way to do this, but hacking the gconf entries works. First, figure out which applet number represents your clock. To find out, I searched gconf for one of my configured locations:
This tells me that my clock is applet_7. Next, fire up gconf-editor and navigate to apps/panel/applets/applet_7/prefs. Edit the cities key and add a value of the following:
Thanks for the hack - there appears to be a fix for this in progress on the Gnome Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541145
Hopefully it'll make it into the next relase of GNOME - as much as the Linux/free software community depends on UTC/GMT/Zulu for coordination, I'm surprised this was ever left out!
