Hi, this is my 1st post and I think I've picked the right forum!

I was just looking to change the timezone (time zone?). I'm running KDE 4.3.? I think. (Linux Mint 8 KDE).

I found the "Date & Time" in System Settings, which was the obvious place to look.

However finding the timezone I wanted is well nigh impossible.

Timezone selection is done from a listbox with 3 columns, Area, Region and Comment, sorted by Area.

How I am supposed to find my timezone from that long list? In general people know their offset from GMT, I live in Massachusetts so I know I want GMT+5 with daylight savings time. But the list isn't sorted by GMT offset, it doesn't even mention GMT offset.

So the timezone I want is the area named "New York"? I don't live in New York.

Right now I'm vacationing in Arizona and I wanted to change the timezone, but I have no idea how to find the one I want. There is no timezone Area named "Arizona". I can't even sort on Region, which might help somewhat.

What I know is that if I had a list sorted by GMT offset I would look at GMT-05:00 and it would be around there.

I'm proposing that a column w/ GMT offset be added, and that all columns, or at least GMT Offset, Area and Region be able to be sorted on.

Thanks for listening,
Mike

Feature requests can be proposed in the Brainstorm or at bugs.kde.org.

Yeah I just gave up on timezones. It's not really that problematic for me it's just that KDE thinks my time zone is Europe/Beograd while it's Europe/Ljubljana. Thankfully it's all in same timezone, but still.
And i do use OpenNTPD.
Which reminds me that NTP option in time settings still doesn't work in KDE.

Primoz wrote:Which reminds me that NTP option in time settings still doesn't work in KDE.

As a note, this has been recently fixed by Harald Sitter for trunk and 4.4: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=1112074

Fixes will appear in KDE 4.4.3, and are already incorporated in the Kubuntu packages for the upcoming Kubuntu 10.04.