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On 1/16/2012 09:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, everybody. |
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> I've finally become zic and tired of messages like |
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> Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012 on tty14 |
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> . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I "just" want my |
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> time to be GMT (or UTC or UCT, or whatever it's called these days). |
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> Surely I don't have to go through the palaver described in the zic |
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> manual page. |
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> |
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> Help, please! |
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I'm not sure what arch you're using, but the Installation manual has a part of |
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the answer for you. |
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I tend to avoid zic like I would avoid the plague, and use the Gentoo method of |
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changing settings. |
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For x86/amd64 systems (7.1.7): |
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# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo (Suppose you want to use GMT) |
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# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime |
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You also need to edit /etc/conf.d/hwclock (if you're using baselayout-2) |
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Specifically, you want to change the "clock=" line to the timezone you are |
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going to be using. |
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There also used to be an /etc/timezone file that would have to be edited, as |
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well. I think they removed |
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that file, but it has been a while since I changed my timezone. |
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After doing all this, you'd have to "source /etc/profile" in your active |
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shells, or just restart. You may get some |
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errors about file times - especially when trying to emerge packages, and if the |
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dates would be in the future. |
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Not a problem if they're in the past. |
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Chris |
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