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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:05:57
Message-Id: et3t24$uu5$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong... by Albert Hopkins
1 On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
3 >>
4 >> Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate
5 >> file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files
6 >> get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file?
7 >
8 > That was the "old" way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new
9 > method is devised. The new method is:
10 >
11 > 1. copy file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime
12 > 2. set your timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock.
13 >
14 > The timezone-data package is supposed to automagically
15 > update /etc/localtime when the TIMEZONE is set in /etc/conf.d/clock.
16 > It's been observed that a lot of people who had problems with the
17 > timezone change had not done #2.
18
19 Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be
20 documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall?
21
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