05_TZandLocale.md

Timezone & Locale

Identify the continent & city

Timezone Setup

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<continent>/<city> /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

Locale Setup

This guide with use US English

Open /etc/locale.gen & uncomment:

# /etc/locale.gen

...
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
...

Then generate the locale:

locale-gen

Set the locale and keymap:

# /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=us