Changing timezone configuration

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 25 13:06:30 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 12:04 +0200, Maciek Borzecki wrote: 
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> ...
> > Use: system-config-date
> > --
> That doesn't really work without a $DISPLAY. As a matter of fact it
> fails without warning that a X is required:
That is certainly true. X ix needed. But someone on the list suggewsted
an alernate method using tzselect if you want to set just the timezone.

>[maciek at corsair:~]$ sudo system-config-date 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py", line 73,
> in <module>
>     useGuiMode(page)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py", line 46,
> in useGuiMode
>     import scdMainWindow
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-date/scdMainWindow.py", line 30, in <module>
>     import gtk
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
> line 64, in <module>
>     _init()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
> line 52, in _init
>     _gtk.init_check()
> RuntimeError: could not open display
> 
> maciek


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