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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] time issue
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 12:00:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530120048.56452256@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE35C0F.4050700@binarywings.net>

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On Mon, 30 May 2011 10:57:51 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:

> The localization guide seems to be in a poor state. Copying the zoneinfo
> file from /usr/share... to /etc/localtime is not the best way to do it
> because then you miss updates. It is better to create a symlink between
> the two.

Which will break if /usr is on a separate filesystem.

> Also, instead of setting the timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock, you
> do it in /etc/timezone nowadays (change introduced in baselayout-2 if
> I'm not mistaken).

Setting it in /etc/timezone also takes care of the updates situation,
because the timezone-data ebuild automatically copies the correct file
to /etc/.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Linux users do it without paying a Bill

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  8:15 [gentoo-user] time issue András Csányi
2011-05-30  8:49 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-30  8:57 ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-30  9:28   ` Henry Gebhardt
2011-05-30 11:00   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-05-30  9:02 ` Henry Gebhardt
2011-05-30  9:10   ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-30  9:11 ` Mick
2011-05-31 16:16 ` [gentoo-user] " András Csányi

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