On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Mon, 16 May 2011 20:28:17 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>:
As far as I know Gentoo does the same as Arch, I'm not sure what Ubuntu does and Fedora/OpenSuse do what I propose. debian (probably ubuntu), use dpkg-reconfigure which set /etc/localtime with a copy of timezone file.
That said it's obvious that there must be a way to set a system wide timezone at boot time. The current method is, btw., much better, since simpler and easier (KISS), than an /etc/rc.d/timezone method.
The simplest way is to do nothing at all during boot.
You only need to set the timezone at install and if it actually has changed, in which case you use a tool (gui/cli) or copy by hand to set /etc/localtime.
I agree with your analysis tom, dropping timezone from rc.conf and let /etc/localtime as unique refence is a good, kiss and standard decision. Let upstream tzselect program set current timezone is nice. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net