Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Friday 02 March 2007 13:35:22 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hm, set your hardware clock to UTC and do as root:
>
> rm /etc/localtime
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland /etc/localtime
>
> should work...

That's not how it's done anymore. Instead you set:

TIMEZONE="Canada/Newfoundland"

in /etc/conf.d/clock and: 

# rm /etc/localtime
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland /etc/localtime

This has the advantage that it'll work even when /usr isn't mounted.

-- 
Bo Andresen