I have emerge'd "gnome", but perhaps not some of the other utility packages that go with it (I'm not really sure what they are). I have the "Clock" applet running in the bottom right corner of my screen. When I right click on it and click "Adjust Date & Time", it says "Failed to locate a program for configuring the date and time. Perhaps none is installed?". This doesn't tell me the names of any of the programs it was expecting to find, or give any help about what to do. The help file says that "The system tool for setting the system date and time starts. Use the tool to adjust the date and time.". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right-click on clock applet 2. Click "adjust date and time" 3. Optionally, click "Help" instead and go to "To Adjust the System Date And Time" Actual Results: The messages received were unhelpful and cryptic. Expected Results: The software presumably has a list of programs which might change the date and time. It should list the names of these programs. Perhaps it could give a complete list in the help file, and the error message could contain a link to the help file. Alternatively, if the clock uses some other method of handling this (for example, there's an environment variable "CLOCK_HANDLING_PROGRAM=/bin/clock"), the help file could explain this method. I am using gnome-2.4. The emerge --info follows: Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-aa1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-aa1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs -ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/root" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="kde perl x86 -oss apm -arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib dvd usb tetex cdr cjk emacs mozilla sse"
you could probably look at the sources to find out what it wants to use.
This can be controlled by a key in gconf. In the Configuration editor take a look at /apps/panel/profiles/default/applet_n/prefs . applet_n refers to one of the numbered applet folders, this will vary depending on what you running. The key you are looking for is 'config_tool.' Unfortunately, this key is unset by default and I can't find a default gnome tool that handles time adjustment.
Doug is right. You can customize the tool to adjust date/time on your system via gconf keys. The applet itself tries to look for two different tools if the gconf value is not available: redhat-config-date and time-admin. If everything fails, the applet displays the `cryptic' message you mention. But this is not a real issue; apparently, the software authors encourage that each distro define whatever tool they want for this. Have a look at: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123448 Now, I don't really think this is worth adding a new RDEPEND to gnome-panel, and there isn't a suitable tool for this in the tree at the moment. However, you could try installing gnome-system-tools, which comes with the `time-admin' tool (although there's no ebuild for it yet --see bug #17766), and see how it works for you. Of course, any ideas regarding all this would be very welcome. Thanks.
*** Bug 32947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
