"Andy Fraser" <andyfraser31@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:m4q6a2-4g9.ln1@news.linuxuser.org.uk...
> In alt.os.linux.gentoo, David uttered these immortal words:
>
>> Already made the symbolic link, and that did not work.
>> When typing the command "date", the system displays the correct time,
>> along with the correct time zone,
>
> Ok.
>
>> but it's only when I type "uname -a"
>> that I get the message:
>> Fri Sep 10 20:46:29 Local time zone must be set--see zic menu i586
>> AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>
> I'm really reaching here because I've never seen this before. That date
> and
> time is the date and time that the kernel was built. Did you have the
> correct timezone set when you compiled that kernel?
>
The time zone was set correctly before the kernel was compiled, although in
order to get rid of this message from uname, should the kernel be recompiled
making a new link to the zone file (seems like a lot of trouble to go
through to fix one error message).

BTW, I use the devel-source 2.6.7 kernel on this machine, though I will
prolly upgrade to 2.6.10 when it is stable

> I can't think of anything else.
>
> PS Please don't top post.
Sorry. Didn't mean to.

>
> --
> Andy.