Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:13:53AM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 03:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, everybody. I've finally become zic and tired of messages like Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:13:53 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Should be done with: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a separate filesystem. The file should be copied instead. The correct Gentoo/OpenRC way

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:13:53 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Should be done with: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 13:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:13:53 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Should be done with: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 19:41, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: On 17.01.2012 13:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:13:53 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Should be done with: ln

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a separate filesystem. The file should be copied instead. Are you sure you're not confusing that with

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 14:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Symlinking is not recommended as it breaks when /usr is on a separate filesystem. The file should be copied instead. Are you sure

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:13:30 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: The localtime files change all the time, look at how often timezone-data is updated. Everyone some bright spark comes up with another clever way of squeezing 25 hours into a day,

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/16/2012 09:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, everybody. I've finally become zic and tired of messages like Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012 on tty14 . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I just want my time to be GMT (or UTC

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-16 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 03:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, everybody. I've finally become zic and tired of messages like Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012 on tty14 . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze