You're welcome to name the file whatever you want and create the link
yourself. You can even create your own time zone file and compile a new
one, but most distributions have a configuration utility that's only
prepared to deal with the standard names. Just so you know, the names
EST5EDT, SystemV/EST5EDT, US/Eastern, and America/New_York are all
identical, but New_York is now the accepted standard. The others are
kept around for compatibility. I find it odd that they didn't settle on
Eastern, but something tells me they won't drop the old names any time soon.
Joel
Dave Sorenson wrote:
A bit off topic, but I've been wondering if you can change the timezone
text from New York to Raleigh, Durham, whereever in the Eastern Time
zone. OK I know that it is completely silly, I was just wondering if you
could.
Randall Barlow wrote:
OK, so I'm still having one issue with this whole "Gentoo changed where
all the configuration settings for the clock" problem: The clock is
syncing to a different timezone. I have /etc/timezone set to
"America/New York", and I tried to copy that link into
/etc/conf.d/timezone, just guessing that the was the new location for
this link (I think it's a link...) I guess it's set to UTC. How to I
get it back to EST?
Thanks,
Randy Barlow
Randall Barlow wrote:
This may be a Gentoo specific problem: I recently ran "emerge --update
--deep world". I usually do this about once a month to get all the
updates (I don't do it more frequently because it always screws up my
nVidia driver...) This time when I did it I started to get warnings
that said that I should not set the clock in /etc/rc.conf (I had it set
to "local"). However, it didn't tell me where I should set the
clock. So now my computer says it's 9:40 pm and it's really 9:16 pm.
How can I
fix this? Thanks!
Randy Barlow
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