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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:42:43 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        marcus@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/139038: x11/gnome-applets: clock applet no longer shows weather information on FreeBSD 8.0 
Message-ID:  <20090927004243.A52DD1CC13@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:12:00 GMT." <200909261412.n8QEC0JW010677@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:12:00 GMT
> From: marcus@FreeBSD.org
> 
> Synopsis: x11/gnome-applets: clock applet no longer shows weather information on FreeBSD 8.0
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: marcus
> State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 26 14:10:26 UTC 2009
> State-Changed-Why: 
> The problem has to do with the timezone file being used.  The timezone file
> in /etc/localtime is not what GNOME is expecting it to be.  Therefore, the
> clock applet doesn't think your home location is still home.  If you click
> the Set button next to the location in the clock applet, you should get
> your weather display back.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139038
> 

Not sure what "Set" button you refer to. I see none in the "Locations"
tab. There is a "Time Settings", but it did nothing to press the "Set
System Time" in the time settings window.

I did note that the zone files in 8.0 are very different from those in
V7. The file now in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles is 2819
bytes while it was only 1701 in V7. I see nothing in UPDATING about
this, but something changed and, once I replaced /etc/localtime with the
now file, the local weather reappeared.

Thanks!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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