From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting GMT to use DST
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:09:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914140942.3c20cae7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070914T141227-426@post.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:20:46 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
> I have an identical question.
> I set /etc/localtime this way:
> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
You no longer need to do that. The timezone-data ebuild used the
TIMEZONE variable in conf.d/clock to copy the correct file for you.
> I'm in Florida and my /etc/conf.d/clock settings
> are:
>
> CLOCK="EST"
> TIMEZONE="/usr/share/zoneinfoAmerica/New_York"
>
> Is it correct to use EST or should it be local?
local (or UTC, which is generally preferable). This variable sets whether
your clock uses local or UTC time, it has nothing to do with setting your
timezone.
TIMEZONE should be America/New_York
--
Neil Bothwick
When puns are outlawed only outlaws will have puns.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-14 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 3:55 [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST Mat Harris
2007-09-14 5:06 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-09-14 5:56 ` Mat Harris
2007-09-14 8:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-14 8:48 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-14 9:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-14 12:20 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2007-09-14 12:36 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-14 13:09 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-09-14 15:08 ` James
2007-09-14 16:28 ` Randy Barlow
2007-09-14 20:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Gibbons
2007-09-15 17:58 ` Mick
2007-09-15 18:31 ` Neil Bothwick
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