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From: Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is the TIMEZONE variable?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:51:32
Message-Id: y65ps7eeczz.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is the TIMEZONE variable? by Michael Sullivan
1 Hello Michael,
2
3 Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> writes:
4
5 > I feel really stupid having to ask this here, but in what file is the
6 > TIMEZONE variable set? My PC clock is set by ntp and it's not being
7 > updated for DST. Wherever the variable is, it's not set. I never
8 > updated it becuase I heard it wasn't actually being used yet, but I
9 > think if I set it my machine's time might get updated for DST. I can't
10 > find the stupid variable though. The one that replaces /etc/localtime.
11 > Can anyone help me out?
12
13 Here is what I did to update all my boxes for the DST change on March
14 11, thanks to the people who responded to my question on this topic
15 last week:
16
17 (1) Sync.
18
19 (2) emerge timezone-data (should be >= 2006p)
20
21 (3) set TIMEZONE="Canada/Newfoundland" in /etc/conf.d/clock (adjust
22 for your local time zone).
23
24 (4) rm /etc/localtime && cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland
25 /etc/localtime (adjust for your local time zone).
26
27 (5) Check: zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007.
28 For timezone-data = 2007c it shows:
29
30 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 03:30:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 00:00:59 2007 NST isdst=0
31 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 03:31:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:01:00 2007 NDT isdst=1
32 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 02:30:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 00:00:59 2007 NDT isdst=1
33 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 02:31:00 2007 UTC = Sat Nov 3 23:01:00
34 2007 NST isdst=0
35
36 All my boxes are running on NDT correctly.
37
38 HTH,
39
40 Roger
41
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