From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWD3q-0006rL-VY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:26:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8EFGnPM004891; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:16:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8EF9maM028396 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:09:48 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F731652F6 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:09:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.886 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.886 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.887, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kDbVZM9lPH3L for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40891649D6 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IWCnF-0003AG-Bd for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:09:17 +0200 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:09:17 +0200 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:09:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: getting GMT to use DST Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <46EA0623.30608@genestate.com> <46EA229A.7070401@genestate.com> <20070914093407.4b4505ce@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200709141055.16697.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <20070914104204.7e31bd55@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20070914140942.3c20cae7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070819 SeaMonkey/1.1.4) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b451f8f8-0f60-4aca-86e9-7d5f028f3d0a X-Archives-Hash: a34574ea5be7d87576c3cc97fb698032 Neil Bothwick 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list