Am Mon, 16 May 2011 20:28:17 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen <[email protected]>:
> I think the TIMEZONE variable in rc.conf is unnecessary and it causes > some problems with other (especially GUI) tools. Since when is it unnecessary and why? And since when does it cause problems with other tools and which problems does it cause? I never had any issues with this, neither with KDE nor with Xfce. And there are not only GUI tools but also CLI tools which also need a correctly set timezone. And what's wrong with the current way of setting a timezone? As far as I know this is the standard way of setting a timezone on Linux, at least Gentoo does it the same way since years. That said it's obvious that there must be a way to set a system wide timezone at boot time. The current method is, btw., much better, since simpler and easier (KISS), than an /etc/rc.d/timezone method. Heiko
