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Bug 566922 - Document /etc/localtime again
Summary: Document /etc/localtime again
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Whiteboard:
Keywords: REGRESSION
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Reported: 2015-11-26 16:22 UTC by Richard Yao (RETIRED)
Modified: 2015-11-26 17:15 UTC (History)
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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.