On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:52:41 -0500,
Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> I'm part way thru a fresh gentoo install and ran up on something in
> the handbook guide to installing that is puzzling.
>
> This URL:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Distribution_files
>
> From the section of install during the chroot and start of putting
> together the OS.
>
> Under heading Timezone I find these sub headings showing examples of
> what to do:
>
> root #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
>
> root #echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone
>
> And there is a little part following that says:
>
> Next, reconfigure the sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will
> update the /etc/localtime file for us, based on the /etc/timezone
> entry. The /etc/localtime file is used by the system C library to
> know the timezone the system is in.
>
> And sys-libs/timezone-data package is a hyperlink to a page about that
> package.
>
> What is really puzzling is the the words `reconfigure' that package.
> But then there is nothing said about what this `reconfiguring'
> consists of.
>
> It used to be we just either copied the appropriate zimezone section
> to /etc/localtime... or symlinked it there.
>
> Can anyone explain what is meant by `reconfiguring' in this context or
> how it is done?
>
> The hyperlink leads to some info about the package but there is no mention
> there of reconfiguring either.
I just copied /usr/share/zoneinfo<whatever> to /etc/localtime and
have never had any problems. I also put the name in /etc/timezone and
all seems to have worked for a number of years.
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