Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:

> > cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime

> You no longer need to do that. The timezone-data ebuild used the
> TIMEZONE variable in conf.d/clock to copy the correct file for you.

> 
> local (or UTC, which is generally preferable). This variable sets whether
> your clock uses local or UTC time, it has nothing to do with setting your
> timezone.

> TIMEZONE should be America/New_York

OK, 
I guess I was looking at some old wikis:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml

Code Listing 2.17: Setting your timezone
livecd / # ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
(Using Brussels as an example)
livecd / # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime

thx,
James

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