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This guide should help users localize their Gentoo Linux distribution to any
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In order to keep time properly, you need to select your timezone so that your
system knows where it is located. Look for your timezone in
/usr/share/zoneinfo. You then set your timezone in
-/etc/conf.d/clock. Please avoid the
+/etc/timezone. Please avoid the
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT* timezones as their names do not
indicate the expected zones. For instance, GMT-8 is in fact GMT+8.
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(First copy the proper zone to localtime)
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
(Now specify your timezone)
-# nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock
-TIMEZONE="Europe/Brussels"
+# nano -w /etc/timezone
+Europe/Brussels
# date
Wed Mar 8 00:46:05 CET 2006
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UTC (or GMT, Greenwich Mean Time) and then your timezone is
taken into account to determine the actual, local time. If,
for some reason, you need your hardware clock not to be in UTC,
-you will need to edit /etc/conf.d/clock and change the
-value of CLOCK from UTC to local.
+you will need to edit /etc/conf.d/hwclock (or, if you use Gentoo
+BSD /etc/conf.d/adjkerntz) and change the
+value of clock from UTC to local.
(recommended:)
-CLOCK="UTC"
+clock="UTC"
(or:)
-CLOCK="local"
+clock="local"