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       I have been exclusively using Gnome for five years. This week however
       I dumped Gnome3 from my Debian testing machine (Wheezy) and installed
       Xfce4. This weekend I'm going to explain the reasons why I did that
       in detail in my blog but by now let me just say that I disliked the
       fact that I couldn't easily tweak its applications to my liking.
       
       Xfce works fine so far, but I discovered that setting the time is not
       an straightforward thing to do. What the heck! I will never
       understand why a regular user can't set the time. Only root can do
       that. No, please don't go telling me about security issues. Setting
       the time shouldn't be a threat to the system.
       
       <rant>
       Why a regular underpriviledged desktop user can shutdown a machine
       and however a cli user has to become root to do that? It makes no
       sense. 
       </rant>
       
       Well the thing is that in order to change the timezone in my Xfce I
       had to reconfigure tzdata because there isn't any configuration
       option in the clock properties window. So I had to switch to a
       terminal emulator:
       
        # dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
       
       I guess there must be a good reason for that. Ahem