Re: /etc/localtime and glibc 2.1
I am having the same problem after upgrading to potato.
/etc/localtime is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern . There
isn't a /usr/share/zoneinfo anymore, and there isn't a file called
'Eastern' on my system.
dselect tells me that the "timezones" package conflicts with, libc6. it
also says timezones REQUIRES libc6. Now, i'm no guru, but i don't think
a package should conflict with something it requires.
So how do we fix this?
Colin Telmer wrote:
>
> I am running potato and have glibc 2.1 installed and date reports GMT time
> rather than EST. I realize that the timezone package was replaced by glibc
> 2.1 but I can't figure out how to tell it to use EST rather than GMT.
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> So I thought I could simply create /etc/localtime with the single line
> reading "EST" but that didn't do anything. Any ideas?
>
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