This problem appears in both the current stable version (LFS 7.2) and the current development version.
Section 6.9.2 Configuring Glibc ... for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \ asia australasia backward pacificnew solar87 solar88 solar89 \ systemv; do zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz} zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz} zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz} done cp -v zone.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York unset ZONEINFO The meaning of the zic commands: [... skip ...] zic ... -p ... This creates the posixrules file. We use New York because POSIX requires the daylight savings time rules to be in accordance with US rules, --- Here we have a sentence which ends in a comma. May it be that some text got lost by accident? There is mention on "New York" and daylight savings time (DST). Is it okay for people in other time zones or regions without DST to issue the above command? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page