  In order to keep time properly, you need to select your
timezone so that your system knows where it is located. Look for
your timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo. You then set your timezone
in /etc/timezone. Please avoid the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT*
timezones as their names do not indicate the expected zones. For
instance, GMT-8 is in fact GMT+8.  # ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
(Suppose you want to use Brussels) (First copy the proper zone
to localtime) (Now specify your timezone) # nano -w
/etc/timezone  # date Wed Mar  8 00:46:05 CET 2006 Hardware
Clock  In most Gentoo Linux installations, your hardware clock
is set to UTC (or GMT, Greenwich Mean Time) and then your
timezone is taken into account to determine the actual, local
time. If, for some reason, you need your hardware clock not to
be in UTC, you will need to edit /etc/conf.d/hwclock (or if you
use Gentoo BSD: /etc/conf.d/adjkerntz) and change the value of
clock from UTC to local.  Locale system What are locales?  A
Locale is a set of information that mo