[OpenIndiana-discuss] /etc/localtime

[Marcel Telka]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 03:01:07PM -0500, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 06:04:11PM +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> > > If you are curious why mate (here caja) shows times in UTC instead
> > > of the timezone set in /etc/default/init (TZ): It specifically
> > > looks for the file /etc/localtime . That should be a link to the
> > > proper timezone binary in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/.... , e.g.,
> > > /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin .
> > 
> > I suspect it does so via glib and so this is related:
> > https://www.illumos.org/issues/9590
> 
> I mentioned that a couple years ago on the mailing list, and got a patch
> included in upstream:
> 
> 	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/2409

Thank you for the pointer and for your work to fix the glib problem.

So it turned out that glib seems to be innocent here.

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