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On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote |
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>> Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate |
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>> file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files |
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>> get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file? |
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> That was the "old" way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new |
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> method is devised. The new method is: |
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> 1. copy file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime |
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> 2. set your timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock. |
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> The timezone-data package is supposed to automagically |
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> update /etc/localtime when the TIMEZONE is set in /etc/conf.d/clock. |
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> It's been observed that a lot of people who had problems with the |
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> timezone change had not done #2. |
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Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be |
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documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall? |
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