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From: Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout-2 progress?
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:56:18
Message-Id: 47C9FB04.3060100@bernd-steinhauser.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout-2 progress? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan schrieb:
2 > Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.de> posted
3 > 47C9DDA1.2000306@×××××××××××××××××.de, excerpted below, on Sat, 01 Mar
4 > 2008 23:50:09 +0100:
5 >
6 >
7 >> What about the timezone?
8 >> Baselayout had a setting for the timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock.
9 >> baselayout-2.0.0
10 >> + openrc doesn't seem to have that. Not needed?
11 >>
12 >
13 > Not needed indeed. The previous setting caused confusion because
14 > changing it didn't actually change the timezone (this isn't the place for
15 > the technical details).
16 >
17 > Now, the clock config file simply sets local or UTC, while the timezone
18 > is set using the standard glibc /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/
19 > <whatever-zone> symlink or the TZ environmental variable (see the tzset
20 > and hwclock manpages among others).
21 >
22 >
23 Then there should be a note, that this setting is deprecated. Currently it
24 only says:
25 'If you want to manage /etc/localtime yourself, set this to "".'
26
27 If there is a note, that this setting isn't used anymore it won't make
28 users,
29 that still have it set wonder why an etc update wants to remove it.
30
31 Bernd
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