Am Mon, 16 May 2011 23:53:16 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen <[email protected]>:
> The only time you need to set the timezone, is when you actually > change timezone. It is therefore not necessary to do this at every > boot. Well, yes. I remember again. > To see a problem (as mentioned earlier): change your (system-wide) > timezone in KDE, reboot, check timezone. Timezone was reset to > whatever was in rc.conf (which was not updated when you updated your > timezone in KDE). But usually not in KDE. Doesn't KDE store its timezone setting separately from /etc/localtime? > As far as I know Gentoo does the same as Arch, I'm not sure what > Ubuntu does and Fedora/OpenSuse do what I propose. > The simplest way is to do nothing at all during boot. > > You only need to set the timezone at install and if it actually has > changed, in which case you use a tool (gui/cli) or copy by hand to set > /etc/localtime. From your explanations and if I think about it again, you're indeed right. The timezone (/etc/localtime) indeed needs to be set only once at install. And if I continue thinking I think I can remember that I needed to symlink or copy the zoneinfo to /etc/localtime manually on Gentoo. Heiko
