[TriLUG] A clock problem

[Joel Ebel]

You're welcome to name the file whatever you want and create the link 
yourself.  You can even create your own time zone file and compile a new 
one, but most distributions have a configuration utility that's only 
prepared to deal with the standard names.  Just so you know, the names 
EST5EDT, SystemV/EST5EDT, US/Eastern, and America/New_York are all 
identical, but New_York is now the accepted standard.  The others are 
kept around for compatibility.  I find it odd that they didn't settle on 
Eastern, but something tells me they won't drop the old names any time soon.

Joel

Dave Sorenson wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Randy Barlow
>>
>> Randall Barlow wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> Randy Barlow
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
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