[arch-general] timezones

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have
> HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
> TIMEZONE="right/Portugal"
> in /etc/rc.conf, but I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. I use
> clockspeed to keep the clock synchronized with a ntp server, and other
> sofware requires a "right/*" timezone. Anyone has any knowledge to share
> about this issue?  For example, "date" gives output that ignores leap
> seconds. Is this a date issue, unrelated with rc.conf? Anyone else using
> a right/* timezone?

This will not work. You need to use a timezone whose zoneinfo file exists.

-t