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On Jan 17, 2008 2:15 AM, Nicolas Litchinko <nicolas@×××××××××.fr> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:37:21PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Jan 16, 2008 4:56 PM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > Thus etc-update and/or dispatch-conf can't change localtime; but can change |
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> > > whether localtime runs or not. |
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> > Humm...seems like what you say is true but doesn't explain how emerge |
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> > -DuN system changed the file. It was clearly changed since I could |
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> > look inside with vi and compare to the Los_Angeles file and see that |
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> > they were clearly different... |
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> There's a variable in /etc/conf.d/clock that controls whether or not |
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> /etc/localtime should be updated when a new version of |
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> sys-libs/timezone-data is merged: TIMEZONE. If this variable is set, the |
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> specified timezone data file is copied over /etc/localtime. |
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> as you can read in /etc/conf.d/clock: |
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> # Select the proper timezone. For valid values, peek inside of the |
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> # /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory. For example, some common values are |
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> # "America/New_York" or "EST5EDT" or "Europe/Berlin". If you want to |
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> # manage /etc/localtime yourself, set this to "". |
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> If TIMEZONE is not set, /etc/localtime is not updated by |
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> sys-libs/timezone-data. However, if TIMEZONE is set to an invalid value, |
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> then /etc/localtime is overwritten by the "Factory" timezone data file. |
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> etc-update has probably changed the value of this variable after a |
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> baselayout update. Then a timezone-data update used the wrong value to |
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> update /etc/localtime. In your, case, the value of TIMEZONE should be |
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> TIMEZONE="America/Los_Angeles". |
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> -- |
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> Nicolas Litchinko |
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> BOFH excuse #348: |
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> We're on Token Ring, and it looks like the token got loose. |
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OK, I buy it. My setup was missing the underscore: |
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dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/clock | grep TIMEZONE |
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TIMEZONE="America/LosAngeles" |
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dragonfly ~ # |
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However time on the machine has been fine for the 2 years we've had |
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the machine. Has this been wrong the whole time and I jsut got lucky |
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or did someone possibly change the formatting? |
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Thanks for the clarification! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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