From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: getting GMT to use DST
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:08:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20070914T170548-649@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070914140942.3c20cae7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > 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.
>
> 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
OK,
I guess I was looking at some old wikis:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
Code Listing 2.17: Setting your timezone
livecd / # ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
(Using Brussels as an example)
livecd / # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
thx,
James
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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
2007-09-14 15:08 ` James [this message]
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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