[TriLUG] A clock problem

[Dave Sorenson]

A bit off topic, but I've been wondering if you can change the timezone 
text from New York to Raleigh, Durham, whereever in the Eastern Time 
zone. OK I know that it is completely silly, I was just wondering if you 
could.

Randall Barlow wrote:

>OK, so I'm still having one issue with this whole "Gentoo changed where
>all the configuration settings for the clock" problem: The clock is
>syncing to a different timezone.  I have /etc/timezone set to
>"America/New York", and I tried to copy that link into
>/etc/conf.d/timezone, just guessing that the was the new location for
>this link (I think it's a link...)  I guess it's set to UTC.  How to I
>get it back to EST?
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>Thanks,
>Randy Barlow
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>>This may be a Gentoo specific problem: I recently ran "emerge --update
>>--deep world".  I usually do this about once a month to get all the
>>updates (I don't do it more frequently because it always screws up my
>>nVidia driver...)  This time when I did it I started to get warnings
>>that said that I should not set the clock in /etc/rc.conf (I had it set
>>to "local").  However, it didn't tell me where I should set the clock. 
>>So now my computer says it's 9:40 pm and it's really 9:16 pm.  How can I
>>fix this?  Thanks!
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>>Randy Barlow
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