daylight savings time issues?

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:39:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote
> 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.

  You are assuming, of course, that /usr is physically on the /
partition, and not another partition that gets mounted later on in the
boot process.

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