{"id":36,"date":"2008-07-15T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danplanet.com\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-07-15T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:49:29","slug":"show-utc-as-a-location-in-gnome-international-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/show-utc-as-a-location-in-gnome-international-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Show UTC as a location in Gnome International Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the new international clock applet in Gnome.&nbsp; It makes it easy to see a list of alternate time zones for coordinating with colleagues.&nbsp; However, it seems to be missing the ability to add UTC as a timezone.&nbsp; UTC, GMT, and Zulu are missing from the zone list, even though they&#8217;re present in \/usr\/share\/zoneinfo.&nbsp; Attempting to add a zone manually just results in a silent failure for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there is a less insane way to do this, but hacking the gconf entries works.&nbsp; First, figure out which applet number represents your clock.&nbsp; To find out, I searched gconf for one of my configured locations:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><p>% grep -lr Hillsboro .gconf<br \/>.gconf\/apps\/panel\/applets\/applet_7\/prefs\/%gconf.xml<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This tells me that my clock is applet_7.&nbsp; Next, fire up gconf-editor and navigate to apps\/panel\/applets\/applet_7\/prefs.&nbsp; Edit the cities key and add a value of the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><p>&lt;location name=&#8221;Zulu&#8221; timezone=&#8221;UTC&#8221; code=&#8221;UTC&#8221; current=&#8221;false&#8221;\/&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Save, quit gconf-editor, and pop open your location list to verify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the new international clock applet in Gnome.&nbsp; It makes it easy to see a list of alternate time zones for coordinating with colleagues.&nbsp; However, it seems to be missing the ability to add UTC as a timezone.&nbsp; 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