Bug#668503: slashtime: should show correct timezone even if place is not listed

[Michael Below]

Package: slashtime
Version: 0.5.13-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

according to the man page, slashtime shows the current timezone as
basis and other places relative to that timezone.

This isn't true, at least if the user location is not on the list of places
known to slashtime. I am in Berlin (CEST), and my system clock is
set for it, e.g. "date" reports it correctly. slashtime knows
about CEST and shows CEST time for Paris. But it doesn't use CEST
as basis. Instead, it uses UTC as a basis, which is useless even
for people in the UK.

slashtime should use the local timezone as basis, as advertised.
If there is no city name known for that timezone, it should simply
display the name of the timezone, e.g. CEST.

Cheers

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages slashtime depends on:
ii  default-jre [java6-runtime]    1:1.6-47
ii  libjava-gnome-java             4.1.1-2
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java6-runtime]  6b24-1.11.1-3
ii  sun-java6-jre [java6-runtime]  6.26-3

slashtime recommends no packages.

slashtime suggests no packages.

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