[gentoo-user] DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

[Grant Edwards]

On most of my Gentoo systems, the DST change didn't happen.

Apparently I screwed up by following the instructions in 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml where
it says:

  Set your timezone

  Set your time zone information by copying the correct file from
  /usr/share/zoneinfo over the /etc/localtime file.

  Code Listing 2.17: Copy your timezone file

  (Using Brussels as an example)
  livecd / # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
  livecd / # date
  Wed Mar  8 00:46:05 CET 2006

Copying the file seems like the wrong thing to do?

Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate
file in /usr/share/zoneinfo?  That way when the zoneinfo files
get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file?

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