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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:35:59
Message-Id: yu9mz2ixwbz.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong... by Grant Edwards
1 At Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> wrote:
4 >> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
5 >>>
6 >> That was the "old" way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new
7 >> method is devised. The new method is:
8 >>
9 >> 1. copy file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime
10 >> 2. set your timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock.
11 >>
12 > Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be
13 > documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall?
14
15 I agree that it should be mentioned and filed
16 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170591
17
18 (I was lucky and noticed the warning message during reboot that my
19 timezone was set to factory in /etc/conf.d/clock so was not bitten.)
20
21 allan
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