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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> * You have an invalid TIMEZONE setting in /etc/timezone |
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> * Your /etc/localtime has been reset to Factory; enjoy! |
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> * Updating /etc/localtime with /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory |
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> cat /etc/timezone |
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> TIMEZONE="EST5EDT" |
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I believe the entire file contents should be "EST5EDT" sans quotes; I |
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don't know if this is documented anywhere... the only entry for 'man |
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timezone' is for the function in time.h. |
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> I can't figure out what this file wants. I've tried several settings |
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> and I don't seem to be able to get it right. (maybe a bug?) |
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> so maybe timezone-data should install the file with a default, and |
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> some examples. because updating documentation is always a good thing. |
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> It's getting hard to keep track of where things are moving to. |
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> like where I'm supposed to set things like EDITOR, and XSESSION with |
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> openrc moving everything around, could we please put these things in |
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> one place? /etc/env.d or /etc/conf.d? also could all the necessary |
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> files be created for us? I think this should apply to |
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> /etc/env.d/02locale as well. I don't see why this isn't created with |
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> some comments by default. |
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> -- |
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> Caleb Cushing |
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Thanks, |
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-- Daniel Verkamp |