is my timezone set?

shanenin · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: is my timezone set?

when I do the command uname -v, it tells me my local timezone is not set. I thought when I sym linked the correct file to /etc/localtime, it was set.

Lucky B · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject:

I might be wrong but the uname string for the date is when your kernel was compiled, which means that if it wasn't setup properly when you compiled, it will continue to be that way until you recompile the kernel.

Basically it just pastes the output of the date command on your kernel description string. date was wonky so it ended up with that string.
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shanenin · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

thanks. That is probably what happened. I will let you know if recompiling changes the uname output.
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shanenin · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

A kernel recompile solved the problem. Thanks again.
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newb_auburn · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I am a new user to Gentoo and have only tried to install twice so please be gentle if this is something relatively easy.

I have followed the installation guide and the localization guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?style=printable) while trying to install Gentoo.

I have recompiled the kernel several times and cannot get the locale correct and due to this I cannot install programs which require the locale being set.

HP Proliant DL360 G4 with Intel Xeon - I set the eveything to the Generic x86_64

# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #4 SMP Mon Oct 9 13:23:09 Local time zone must be set--see zic m x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz GNU/Linux

# date
Fri Oct 13 10:40:20 PDT 2006

# ls -al /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2006-10-12 15:15 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

# cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-15"

# grep LINGUAS /etc/make.conf
LINGUAS="en"

# grep en_US /etc/profile
export LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
export LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-15"

Thanks in advance for any help!

nixnut · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

merged above post here.
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moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Uh, your time zone appears to be set just fine (note the PDT in the date output). As to the kernel message - that happens because you did not set the time zone before compiling the kernel. That string there is actually stored inside the kernel image and was generated at compile time, it's not an error and it's not generated when you run uname. You can verify this by recompiling and booting a new kernel now, after the time zone is set. If you boot the new one, that message will have disappeared.

Edit: Thread got merged after I posted Reply

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newb_auburn · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I should add I had emerged timezone-data and tried all the steps in the localization steps again.

I also tried using the zic command but truthfully I am not sure if I was using it right and couldn't find a good example.

moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

AGAIN: Your time zone is set just fine, please read the posts above.
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newb_auburn · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Hi Moocha!

Thanks for the reply!

I have tried compiling the kernel about 5 times last night with everything set. And yes, I copied my bzImage to the /boot and updated my grub.conf and I still can't get it to set.

newb_auburn · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Ok - totally newbie mistake made...

so if you:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make && make modules_install
# cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/some_kernel_name
# reboot

it doesn't update the kernel - I wasn't calling make menuconfig because I wasn't changing anything in the menu

So...

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig (don't change anything just click "save")
# make && make modules_install
# cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/some_kernel_name
# reboot

finally worked..

See total rookie mistake!

Thanks to all who posted.