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From: Daniel Verkamp <daniel@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables.
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:56:18
Message-Id: 1a5a6bfe0903152056n7e79a513ue7e1b87c868a912b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables. by Caleb Cushing
1 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >  * You have an invalid TIMEZONE setting in /etc/timezone
3 >  * Your /etc/localtime has been reset to Factory; enjoy!
4 >  * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory
5 >
6 > cat /etc/timezone
7 > TIMEZONE="EST5EDT"
8
9 I believe the entire file contents should be "EST5EDT" sans quotes; I
10 don't know if this is documented anywhere... the only entry for 'man
11 timezone' is for the function in time.h.
12
13 >
14 > I can't figure out what this file wants. I've tried several settings
15 > and I don't seem to be able to get it right. (maybe a bug?)
16 >
17 > so maybe timezone-data should install the file with a default, and
18 > some examples. because updating documentation is always a good thing.
19 > It's getting hard to keep track of where things are moving to.
20 >
21 > like where I'm supposed to set things like EDITOR, and XSESSION with
22 > openrc moving everything around, could we please put these things in
23 > one place? /etc/env.d or /etc/conf.d? also could all the necessary
24 > files be created for us? I think this should apply to
25 > /etc/env.d/02locale as well. I don't see why this isn't created with
26 > some comments by default.
27 > --
28 > Caleb Cushing
29 >
30
31 Thanks,
32 -- Daniel Verkamp

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Re: [gentoo-dev] timezone and other moving rc variables. Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>