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<mail link="nightmorph"/> |
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This guide should help users localize their Gentoo Linux distribution to any |
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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 |
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In order to keep time properly, you need to select your timezone so that your |
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system knows where it is located. Look for your timezone in |
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system knows where it is located. Look for your timezone in |
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<path>/usr/share/zoneinfo</path>. You then set your timezone in |
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<path>/usr/share/zoneinfo</path>. You then set your timezone in |
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<path>/etc/conf.d/clock</path>. Please avoid the |
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<path>/etc/timezone</path>. Please avoid the |
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<path>/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT*</path> timezones as their names do not |
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<path>/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT*</path> timezones as their names do not |
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indicate the expected zones. For instance, <path>GMT-8</path> is in fact GMT+8. |
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indicate the expected zones. For instance, <path>GMT-8</path> is in fact GMT+8. |
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<comment>(First copy the proper zone to localtime)</comment> |
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<comment>(First copy the proper zone to localtime)</comment> |
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# <i>cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime</i> |
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# <i>cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime</i> |
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<comment>(Now specify your timezone)</comment> |
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<comment>(Now specify your timezone)</comment> |
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# <i>nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock</i> |
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# <i>nano -w /etc/timezone</i> |
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TIMEZONE="Europe/Brussels" |
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# <i>date</i> |
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Wed Mar 8 00:46:05 CET 2006 |
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UTC (or GMT, Greenwich Mean Time) and then your timezone is |
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UTC (or GMT, Greenwich Mean Time) and then your timezone is |
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taken into account to determine the actual, local time. If, |
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taken into account to determine the actual, local time. If, |
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for some reason, you need your hardware clock not to be in UTC, |
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for some reason, you need your hardware clock not to be in UTC, |
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you will need to edit <path>/etc/conf.d/clock</path> and change the |
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you will need to edit <path>/etc/conf.d/hwclock</path> (or, if you use Gentoo |
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value of <c>CLOCK</c> from <c>UTC</c> to <c>local</c>. |
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BSD <path>/etc/conf.d/adjkerntz</path>) and change the |
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value of <c>clock</c> from <c>UTC</c> to <c>local</c>. |
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<pre caption="local vs. GMT clock"> |
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<pre caption="local vs. GMT clock"> |
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<comment>(recommended:)</comment> |
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<comment>(recommended:)</comment> |
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CLOCK="UTC" |
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clock="UTC" |
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<comment>(or:)</comment> |
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CLOCK="local" |
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clock="local" |
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Use <c>de_DE@euro</c> as your LANG if you want to use the Euro currency symbol |
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Use <c>de_DE@euro</c> as your LANG if you want to use the Euro currency symbol |
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(€) on non UTF-8 based locales. |
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The keyboard layout used by the console is set in |
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The keyboard layout used by the console is set in |
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<path>/etc/conf.d/keymaps</path> by the <c>KEYMAP</c> variable. |
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<path>/etc/conf.d/keymaps</path> by the <c>keymap</c> variable. |
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Valid values can be found in |
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<path>/usr/share/keymaps/<c>{arch}</c>/</path>. |
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<path>/usr/share/keymaps/<c>{arch}</c>/</path>. |
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<path>i386</path> has further subdivisions into layout |
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<path>i386</path> has further subdivisions into layout |
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<pre caption="Setting the console keymap"> |
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KEYMAP="de" |
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KEYMAP="de-latin1" |
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keymap="de-latin1" |
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KEYMAP="de-latin1-nodeadkeys" |
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keymap="de-latin1-nodeadkeys" |
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<pre caption="Setting the X keymap"> |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Option "XkbLayout" "de" |
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#Option "XkbModel" "pc105" <comment>## this is for international keyboards.</comment> |
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# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" <comment>## this would be used for xterm input</comment> |
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<pre caption="Switching between two keyboard layouts"> |
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In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you will need to set |
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<c>CONSOLEFONT</c> in <path>/etc/conf.d/consolefont</path> to a file found in |
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<pre caption="Add consolefont to boot"> |
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