Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>

This patch breaks the timezone selection on 2 screens: an
area (Africa, America, ... - continent?) and a zone (Apia,
Auckland, ... - capital?) inside the area. The while loop
and tzset keep track if a zone has been selected, and exit
to area screen (instead of main) if not. Hairy, but works.


git-svn-id: http://www.rocklinux.org/svn/rock-linux/trunk@1033 c5f82cb5-29bc-0310-9cd0-bff59a50e3bc

Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE

@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@
 This is not only the CHANGELOG of the desktop target, but also of the
 whole rxr-tree.
 
+*) 2003-08-06 (2.0.0-beta7 - 2.0.0-rc1)
+
+ - Dimitar Zhekov: stone timezone breakup
+
 *) 2003-08-05 (2.0.0-beta7 - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
  - Burkhard Linke: fixed kasc/clanlib, gtk-perl10, gtkhtml10
                    fixed tibit/pilot-link, tibit/jpilot-syncmal
                    updated clifford/mysql and fixed clifford/mysqlcc
+
 *) 2003-08-04 (2.0.0-beta7 - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
  - Burkhard Linke: fixed qtparte, spice and xplanet

package/base/sysfiles/stone_mod_general.sh

@@ -126,17 +126,30 @@ set_con_blank() {
 }
 
 set_tmzone() {
-	tz="$( ls -l /etc/localtime | cut -f7- -d/ )"
+	tz="$( ls -l /etc/localtime | cut -f8 -d/ )"
 	cmd="gui_menu 'general_tmzone' 'Select one of the"
 	cmd="$cmd following time zones. (Current: $tz)'"
 
-	cmd="$cmd $( grep '^[^#]' /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | \
-		cut -f3 | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's,[^ ]\+,& '`
-		`'"ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/& /etc/localtime",g' )"
+	cmd="$cmd $( grep "$1/" /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | cut -f3 | \
+		cut -f2 -d/ | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's,[^ ]\+,& '`
+		`'"ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/$1/& /etc/localtime",g' )"
 
 	eval "$cmd"
 }
 
+set_tmarea() {
+	tz="$( ls -l /etc/localtime | cut -f7 -d/ )"
+	cmd="gui_menu 'general_tmarea' 'Select one of the"
+	cmd="$cmd following time areas. (Current: $tz)'"
+
+	cmd="$cmd $( grep '^[^#]' /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | cut -f3 | \
+		cut -f1 -d/ | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's,[^ ]\+,& '`
+		`'"if set_tmzone & ; then tzset=1 ; fi",g' )"
+
+	tzset=0
+	while eval "$cmd" && [ $tzset = 0 ] ; do : ; done
+}
+
 set_dtime() {
 	dtime="`date '+%m-%d %H:%M %Y'`" ; newdtime="$dtime"
 	gui_input "Set new date and time (MM-DD hh:mm YYYY, localtime)" \
@@ -189,7 +202,7 @@ main() {
 	gui_menu general 'Various general system configurations' \
 		"Set console keyboard mapping ....... $keymap" "set_keymap" \
 		"Set console screen font ............ $vcfont" "set_vcfont" \
-		"Set system-wide time zone .......... $tz"     "set_tmzone" \
+		"Set system-wide time zone .......... $tz"     "set_tmarea" \
 		"Set date and time (localtime) ...... $dtime"  "set_dtime"  \
 		"Set system-wide locale (language) .. $locale" "set_locale" \
 		"Set console keyboard repeat rate ... $kbd_rate" "set_kbd_rate" \