Bug 566922

Summary:	Document /etc/localtime again
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Richard Yao (RETIRED) <ryao>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	Keywords:	REGRESSION
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-11-26 16:22:02 UTC

The handbook used to tell people to copy a file from /usr/share/timezone into /etc/localtime (it really should have been a symlink for timezone updates to fix things) so that `date` would be properly localized. Coincidentally, KDE relies on this for the default system timezone as well.

At some point, this was removed. I caught it when doing a new install. It should be added again.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-11-26 16:31:19 UTC

It is part of the first steps in the chroot, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base

The file is generated as part of the timezone-data package configuration.

Comment 2 Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-11-26 17:15:26 UTC

My mistake. Thanks.