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authorSamuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>2013-01-30 23:23:43 +0000
committerSamuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>2013-01-30 23:23:43 +0000
commit52eceff5a88fb600a485db6d74d86f0a0bdecba4 (patch)
tree0a86e583c2572d47682246e7bee01e5807537b4c
parente4dbc6eaaf7ee687dcc6fb66f94e4b1a29cf9d47 (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-52eceff5a88fb600a485db6d74d86f0a0bdecba4.zip
Fix location of UTC vs local timezone configuration. Closes: #699297. [ Holger Wansing ]
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog3
-rw-r--r--en/appendix/chroot-install.xml7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8c5476aa3..71b63e188 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ installation-guide (2013XXXX) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Add wiki URL for installed system accessibility.
* Provide more details on software speech synthesis support.
+ [ Holger Wansing ]
+ * Fix location of UTC vs local timezone configuration. Closes: #699297.
+
-- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:08:18 +0100
installation-guide (20121010) unstable; urgency=low
diff --git a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
index 09289c76c..1e918dce6 100644
--- a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
@@ -335,13 +335,14 @@ the chroot:
<title>Setting Timezone</title>
<para>
-An option in the file <filename>/etc/default/rcS</filename> determines
+Setting the third line of the file <filename>/etc/adjtime</filename> to
+<quote>UTC</quote> or <quote>LOCAL</quote> determines
whether the system will interpret the hardware clock as being set to UTC
-or local time. The following command allows you to set that and choose
+respective local time. The following commands allow you to set that and choose
your timezone.
<informalexample><screen>
-# editor /etc/default/rcS
+# editor /etc/adjtime
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
</screen></informalexample>