[gentoo-user] new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[gentoo-user] new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

am I doing something wrong?

Whenever I emerge a new sys-libs/timezone-data
I need to do afterwards

rm -f /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime

(This is with baselayout-2.0.0)

Many thanks for a hint,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Sebastian Wiesner]

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Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> at Thursday 31 July 2008, 
13:27:24
> Hi,
>
> am I doing something wrong?
>
> Whenever I emerge a new sys-libs/timezone-data
> I need to do afterwards
>
> rm -f /etc/localtime
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
>
> (This is with baselayout-2.0.0)
>
> Many thanks for a hint,

Why don't you just create /etc/timezone with "Europe/Berlin" as content?

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Re: [gentoo-user] new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Justin]

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Sebastian Wiesner schrieb:
> Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> at Thursday 31 July 2008, 
> 13:27:24
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Whenever I emerge a new sys-libs/timezone-data
>> I need to do afterwards
>>
>> rm -f /etc/localtime
>> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
>>
>> (This is with baselayout-2.0.0)
>>
>> Many thanks for a hint,
>>     
>
> Why don't you just create /etc/timezone with "Europe/Berlin" as content?
>
>   
I think this way is the more correcct one. according to the OpenRC 
migration guide:

Additionally, the TIMEZONE variable is no longer in this file. Its 
contents are instead found in the /etc/timezone file. If it doesn't 
exist, you will of course have to create it with your timezone. Please 
review both of these files to ensure their correctness.

The proper value for this file is the path relative to your timezone 
from /usr/share/zoneinfo. For example, for someone living on the east 
coast of the United States, the following would be a correct setting:

Code Listing 2.10: /etc/timezone

America/New_York
      




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[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Anno v. Heimburg]

>> Why don't you just create /etc/timezone with "Europe/Berlin" as content?

Huh? I always thought the proper place was the TIMEZONE variable
in /etc/conf.d/clock:

TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2008/7/31, Anno v. Heimburg <anno@vonheimburg.de>:
> Huh? I always thought the proper place was the TIMEZONE variable
> in /etc/conf.d/clock:

It was he proper place in pre baselayout-2 and openrc times! Now the
proper place for gentoo is /etc/timezone!

[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2008/7/31, Anno v. Heimburg <anno@vonheimburg.de>:
>> Huh? I always thought the proper place was the TIMEZONE variable
>> in /etc/conf.d/clock:
> 
> It was he proper place in pre baselayout-2 and openrc times! Now the
> proper place for gentoo is /etc/timezone!

So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it?

[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Sven Köhler]

> So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it?

There is no /etc/conf.d/clock anymore in openrc/baselayout 2.0.

The openrc file is called /etc/conf.d/hwclock, and there's no TIMEZONE 
variable in that file.

[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Sven Köhler wrote:
>> So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it?
> 
> There is no /etc/conf.d/clock anymore in openrc/baselayout 2.0.
> 
> The openrc file is called /etc/conf.d/hwclock, and there's no TIMEZONE 
> variable in that file.

Ah, oops, I'm on stable.  Baselayout 2 is ~amd64.

Re: [gentoo-user] new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 31 Jul, Sebastian Wiesner wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> at Thursday 31 July 2008, 
> 13:27:24
>> Hi,
>>
>> am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Whenever I emerge a new sys-libs/timezone-data
>> I need to do afterwards
>>
>> rm -f /etc/localtime
>> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
>>
>> (This is with baselayout-2.0.0)
>>
>> Many thanks for a hint,
> 
> Why don't you just create /etc/timezone with "Europe/Berlin" as content?
> 

Thanks, but it doesn't work here. I must be doing something wrong.

Now,
I have deleted /etc/localtime
/etc/conf.d/hwclock contains
clock="local"
(which is recommended for a dual boot system with Windows)

For /etc/timezone
I have tried both
Europe/Berlin

and alternatively
"Europe/Berlin"

In both cases I get GMT instead of my local time here.

Many thanks for a further hint,
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

[Justin]

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> Thanks, but it doesn't work here. I must be doing something wrong.
>
> Now,
> I have deleted /etc/localtime
> /etc/conf.d/hwclock contains
> clock="local"
> (which is recommended for a dual boot system with Windows)
>
> For /etc/timezone
> I have tried both
> Europe/Berlin
>
> and alternatively
> "Europe/Berlin"
>
> In both cases I get GMT instead of my local time here.
>
> Many thanks for a further hint,
> Helmut.
>
>   

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[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand

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Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Thanks, but it doesn't work here. I must be doing something wrong.
> 
> Now,
> I have deleted /etc/localtime
> /etc/conf.d/hwclock contains
> clock="local"
> (which is recommended for a dual boot system with Windows)
> 
> For /etc/timezone
> I have tried both
> Europe/Berlin
> 
> and alternatively
> "Europe/Berlin"
> 
> In both cases I get GMT instead of my local time here.
> 

try:

# echo Eurpoe/Berlin >/etc/timezone
# emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data

NB: this will only need to be done this once, after that, an update of
sys-libs/timezone-data will automatically update /etc/localtime

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