On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote >> >> Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate >> file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files >> get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file? > > That was the "old" way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new > method is devised. The new method is: > > 1. copy file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime > 2. set your timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock. > > The timezone-data package is supposed to automagically > update /etc/localtime when the TIMEZONE is set in /etc/conf.d/clock. > It's been observed that a lot of people who had problems with the > timezone change had not done #2.
Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm having fun at HITCHHIKING to CINCINNATI visi.com or FAR ROCKAWAY!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list