A bit of a rant
One of the things that makes opensuse and linux not-so-user friendly is the fact that the localization is lacking. For instance, if I setup opensuse with all my local settings (time, printer preferences etc), these settings do not carry through to programs that are installed. eg if I set the default printer to have A4 in opensuse yast settings, I still have to set openoffice, kpdf, gimp, firefox and many others up to have the same settings. The same is applicable to time - though not so often.
It seems that there is a lack of co-ordination between programmers of applications and distro programmers.
If things like keyboards can be set centrally, surely this can be adopted for printing and time.