Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout-2 progress?

[Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@bernd-steinhauser.de>]

Duncan schrieb:
> Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@bernd-steinhauser.de> posted
> 47C9DDA1.2000306@bernd-steinhauser.de, excerpted below, on  Sat, 01 Mar
> 2008 23:50:09 +0100:
>
>   
>> What about the timezone?
>> Baselayout had a setting for the timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock.
>> baselayout-2.0.0
>> + openrc doesn't seem to have that. Not needed?
>>     
>
> Not needed indeed.  The previous setting caused confusion because 
> changing it didn't actually change the timezone (this isn't the place for 
> the technical details).
>
> Now, the clock config file simply sets local or UTC, while the timezone 
> is set using the standard glibc /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/
> <whatever-zone> symlink or the TZ environmental variable (see the tzset 
> and hwclock manpages among others).
>
>   
Then there should be a note, that this setting is deprecated. Currently it
only says:
'If you want to manage /etc/localtime yourself, set this to "".'

If there is a note, that this setting isn't used anymore it won't make 
users,
that still have it set wonder why an etc update wants to remove it.

Bernd
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