The x86 installation handbook instructs the user to set the timezone in chapter 8 configuring the system, however I think the timezone should be set before emerge system takes place, the reason I say this is because my time zone is KST (ROK) and after setting the timezone in Chapter 8 when I tried to emerge another program I recivied 'system clock skewed' messages. After a second install I set the timezone prior to emerge system and the errors have vanished. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow x86 Installation guide to setting the timezone 2. When setting the timezone choose a different timezone than GMT 3. emerge a program Actual Results: Received system clock skewed error messages while emerging a program Expected Results: gave me 0 errors :-)
Setting the timezone doesn't alter the time written down when a file is created/modified. In other words, clock skews aren't due to a changed /etc/localtime. Clock skews are when your system clock is really wrong (lagging behind). You didn't run "date -s" or "ntpdate" previously after emerge system'ing, did you?
Not that I can recall. I recently did a new install and set the timezone according to the docs and no problems. Perhaps something else was wack with my system the first time I did a install.
I'll mark this one as WORKSFORME then. If you ever get into troubles regarding times and dates, take a look at net-misc/ntp. You can set it so it keeps your clock synchronised with an online ntp-server. Such a setup provides you with a very correct timesetting. In production environments, where correct time synchronisation is important (for instance for logfiles), ntp is a de facto standard.
