authentication fails when trying to change time settings with systemsettings (sid)

["te.richardson@gmail.com" <tim@tim-richardson.net>]

Trying to use 4.4.3's systemsettings on sid to change date/time fails 
when trying to gain root privileges.
(work-around is kdesu systemsettings)

Are others getting this problem? I guess so. I did some googling and 
came across threads where kde say it's an upstream bug, yet providing 
workaround which involve moving some files around in the the directory 
structure, which sounds like a distribution could fix this.
but it's well over my head.
However, I think it would be a shame for Debian not to fix this (easy 
for me to say, of course).

references:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229735
http://old.nabble.com/KAuth,-Date-and-Time,-System-Settings,-Bug-found.-td28100622.html