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 GMT (or UTC or UCT, or whatever it's called these days). > Surely I don't have to go through the palaver described in the zic > manual page. > > Help, please!
I'm not sure what arch you're using, but the Installation manual has a part of the answer for you. I tend to avoid zic like I would avoid the plague, and use the Gentoo method of changing settings. For x86/amd64 systems (7.1.7): # ls /usr/share/zoneinfo (Suppose you want to use GMT) # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime You also need to edit /etc/conf.d/hwclock (if you're using baselayout-2) Specifically, you want to change the "clock=" line to the timezone you are going to be using. There also used to be an /etc/timezone file that would have to be edited, as well. I think they removed that file, but it has been a while since I changed my timezone. After doing all this, you'd have to "source /etc/profile" in your active shells, or just restart. You may get some errors about file times - especially when trying to emerge packages, and if the dates would be in the future. Not a problem if they're in the past. Chris
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