On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:06:37AM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:43 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> We have some good classes lined up this time:
>
> 1:30 UTC ...
It used to be quite easy to see UTC time without using the command line.
But now, on Gnome, at least, it isn't. There's no option for quickly
seeing the taskbar clock in UTC instead of local. And the options for
adding extra clocks doesn't give you any way to add UTC (a rather
obvious, but not doable, solution). The only way I could see to do that
would be to add a location that has no offset from GMT, and doesn't
observe daylight savings. But I don't know of one like that.
You can add another clock applet, and then set the GConf key for
gmt_time on that applet:
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/panel/applets/<that_applet>/prefs/gmt_time
true
(I find the "gconf-editor" package really helpful for mucking around
with GConf -- it ends up in your Accessories > System Tools menu and
is essentially a slick GUI for gconftool-2.)
But I do wish you could add a location for UTC. I haven't looked, but
it might be filed as an enhancement request in the upstream
bugzilla.gnome.org -- if it's not, you could file one.
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