On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > Mark Knecht posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:38:15 -0800 as excerpted: > > > The solution to this is eluding me. What changes, other than changing > > /etc/timezone, are required to get a Gentoo machine to recognize that it > > has moved physically and is living in a new timezone? > > > > I've just moved from Silicon Valley to Tucson, AZ. The machine came up > > fine other than time being off by 1 hour which I expected. I changed > > /etc/timezone from America/Los_Angeles to America/Phoenix and rebooted > > and yet time is still showing California time. > > > > The system clock is UTC. [snipped] > > Welcome to AZ. I'm in Phoenix. Talking about time, the really nice > thing about AZ is that it doesn't do daylight savings time, so you don't > have to worry about time jumping around twice a year. =:^) > > I first read your message this AM, before work, but while I remembered > that there was another file to configure, I forgot what it was, and > didn't have time to look it up, so it had to wait until tonite. > > So I just looked it up in the handbook, and thus can point you right at > it. =:^) > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Timezone > > You did the first part of it, setting /etc/timezone, but didn't do the > second part, setting /etc/localtime, which is used by glibc to know your > timezone. You can either do it using the command in the handbook: > > emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data > > ... or you can do it manually by copying the appropriate timezone file > from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to /etc/localtime, for AZ: > > cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix /etc/localtime <SNIP>
Thanks Duncan. I looked at that file (cat /etc/timezone) for a moment this morning - the name is so obvious - but it was a binary and then for some reason I never followed up in Google. My bad. All fixed now. If you find yourself in Tucson let me know and I'll buy you a beer or two (or whatever you drink) for all the help over the years. Gotta say I'm digging all the jazz on NPR here at night. I was in the Bay Area for the last nearly 40 years and KQED up there is a power house station but nighttime radio was more or less a repeat of what's on during the day. The Tucson station is more varied. Cheers, Mark
