Bug 469760

Summary:	sys-libs/timezone-data resetting timezone to "Factory" though correct setting is in /etc/timezone
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Dominik Bürkle <dominik.buerkle>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for timezone-data-2013b.ebuild, also fits for 2013c

Description Mark Dominik Bürkle 2013-05-13 22:28:24 UTC

Created attachment 348194 [details, diff]
patch for timezone-data-2013b.ebuild, also fits for 2013c

/etc/localtime is being overwritten by every update of timezone-data (2013b,c and earlier).
patch follows.

Comment 1 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2013-05-13 22:34:27 UTC

ups - my /etc/timezone does not conform to the (current?) Gentoo manual:
I have as contents

TIMEZONE=Europe/Berlin

though equal signs normally don't appear in file names and it could be cut off anyways...

TIA

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-05-14 16:22:46 UTC

/etc/conf.d/clock is where you do something like:
 TIMEZONE=aslkdjf

/etc/timezone does not take the var form.  it is just:
 aslkdjf

if you're putting "TIMEZONE=aslkdjf" into /etc/timezone, then your system is misconfigured