RE: gnome-control-center datetime problem

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 07:39 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > If timedate depends on systemd, then maybe this applet should not be
> > compiled if systemd is not present?
>
> I don't speak for the control-center maintainers, but I suspect they won't
> want to introduce this option since changing the time is very basic
> functionality. I would not be very pleased if I needed to change the time and
> could not find any way to do so. Hence it makes sense for the panel to be
> mandatory.
>
> Remember that systemd is not required: only the timedated D-Bus interface
> is required, which should not be too hard to reimplement (as Ubuntu has
> apparently done?).

Thanks - I compiled system and kept the hostname, locale, login and timedate functions.

I looks like things will work, but it's going to need a little effort.