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

-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

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

-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. >>>

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

-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 wi

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

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 19:41, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > On 17.01.2012 13:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM, "Neil Bothwick" >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:13:53 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen >>> wrote: >>> Should be done with: ln -sf /usr/share/z

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 13:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM, "Neil Bothwick" > 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 /et

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

On Jan 17, 2012 7:20 PM, "Neil Bothwick" 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 > filesystem. T

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

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.

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--se

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

-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 g

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

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 G

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

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 or UCT, or whatever it's called these days). Sure