daylight savings time issues?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:26:44PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   As Fraser mentioned, try...
> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
> 
>   In the old days /etc/localtime was actually a symlink to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/ooga/booga (or whatever your selected timezone is).
> A nice feature of that was that when your /usr/share/zoneinfo/ooga/booga
> was updated, the symlink, by definition, was also updated.

Still is.

>   Nowadays, /etc/localtime is *A COPY* of /usr/share/zoneinfo/ooga/booga,
> and you have to manually...

Only on some crazy systems.

> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/ooga/booga /etc/localtime
> 
> I really can't see the logic behind that.  Anyhow, whenever you reboot,
> the system reads /etc/localtime and sets to whatever is indicated there.

# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 34 Mar 13 15:06 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern

Apparently Debian belives in being a sane distribution.

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