Bug 185337

Summary:	Allow user to customize timezone (time zone) names in clock widget
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	widget-clock	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dinimito2, dmkohler, jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Tristan Miller 2009-02-23 14:20:23 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

The clock applet has a neat feature which allows the user to keep track of the time in various timezones.  The user configures this by selecting the timezones from a list; he can then hover over the clock applet to see other timezones.  The name of a city associated with the timezone is displayed next to its time.

However, the practice of naming timezones after cities causes a great deal of confusion.  I need to keep track of the time in Houston, but there's no timezone named "Houston"; I have to use "Chicago" instead, and then later remember that "Chicago"=Houston when reading the widget's pop-up dialog.  This gets very annoying when one has a lot of timezones in one's list.

To solve this problem, it would be great to have feature to allow the user to create aliases or nicknames for timezones.  Therefore I can configure the clock to display "Houston" for the Chicago timezone and "Toronto" for the New York timezone without having to remember which city is in which arbitrarily-named timezone.

Comment 1 Tristan Miller 2009-02-23 14:21:38 UTC

See also Bug 106148 for the corresponding kicker clock wish.

Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2009-02-23 14:25:35 UTC

Note this report applies to both the digital and analogue clock widgets.

Comment 3 John Layt 2010-07-09 09:21:31 UTC

*** Bug 230335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 John Layt 2011-02-17 11:56:25 UTC

I've been thinking about ways to do this, and may have a plan to do it at a KDE wide level.  It's low down my priority list, so not coming soon, but if anyone's interested in implementing it drop me a line.

Comment 5 Tristan Miller 2016-08-13 18:41:35 UTC

Are there any prospects of this feature getting implemented in Plasma 4?  If not, could this report be reassigned to the Plasma 5 product?

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:57:23 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham

Comment 7 Tristan Miller 2018-06-09 05:10:50 UTC

> Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request.
> If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma
> 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell"
> product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

Reincarnated as Bug 395164.