In alt.os.linux.gentoo, David uttered the immortal words:

> Running gentoo 2004.3 with no gui and every time I do a uname -a it says
> the local time zone is not set, and to use a prog called zic to set it.

Have a look at chapter 7 in the handbook again:
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7>

Have you done this?

--
Andy.