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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-12, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:

> 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?

The handbook makes the same mistake:

   7.a. Timezone
   
   You first need to select your timezone so that your system
   knows where it is located. Look for your timezone in
   /usr/share/zoneinfo, then copy it to /etc/localtime. Please
   avoid the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT* timezones as their
   names do not indicate the expected zones. For instance,
   GMT-8 is in fact GMT+8.
   
   Code Listing 1: Setting the timezone information
   
   # ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
   (Suppose you want to use GMT)
   # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
   
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