From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hlpxx-0006l4-6a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 17:28:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49HRNQd006016; Wed, 9 May 2007 17:27:23 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49HJEqx026866 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 17:19:16 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5DB64B3 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 18:19:04 +0100 (WAT) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99C714DE2F for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 18:19:11 +0100 (WAT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([41.205.128.67]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JHSAS001.9S7 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 18:19:12 +0100 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clock is way off Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:17:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <49bf44f10705081656s776f28f5kbe497a5326107c2f@mail.gmail.com> <4641F2FE.709@magellium.fr> <4641FF41.7020000@exceedtech.net> In-Reply-To: <4641FF41.7020000@exceedtech.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705091817.16585.uwix@iway.na> X-Archives-Salt: 14f3b182-3675-416b-800c-3d11444a75f6 X-Archives-Hash: 0ae4e17eb10929c4a83ee703dd20366a On 09 May 2007, Dale wrote: > Redouane Boumghar wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I recently had to reset my clock to a more "correct" (that may be > > subjective) setting. > > In your case I would set my /etc/conf.d/clock file as: > > > > CLOCK="UTC" > > TIMEZONE="US/Pacific" > > then I would assure that my /etc/localtime file is correct with the > > next command: > > > > $ cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime > > > > > > Hope that helps > > I'd be happy to share the pros and the cons... > > I think you are supposed to link that localtime file instead of > copying. If the file in zoneinfo gets updated then the one in /etc will > still be the old one. > > Someone correct me if I am wrong here. Either way is possible. I prefer a link so I can see what /etc/localtime points to. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list