On 2007-03-12, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On most of my Gentoo systems, the DST change didn't happen.
>
> Apparently I screwed up by following the instructions in
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml where
> it says:
>
> Set your timezone
>
> Set your time zone information by copying the correct file from
> /usr/share/zoneinfo over the /etc/localtime file.
>
> Code Listing 2.17: Copy your timezone file
>
> (Using Brussels as an example)
> livecd / # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
> livecd / # date
> Wed Mar 8 00:46:05 CET 2006
>
> Copying the file seems like the wrong thing to do?
The handbook makes the same mistake:
7.a. Timezone
You first need to select your timezone so that your system
knows where it is located. Look for your timezone in
/usr/share/zoneinfo, then copy it to /etc/localtime. Please
avoid the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT* timezones as their
names do not indicate the expected zones. For instance,
GMT-8 is in fact GMT+8.
Code Listing 1: Setting the timezone information
# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
(Suppose you want to use GMT)
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
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