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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: systemd and timezone
From:       Sven Joachim <svenjoac () gmx ! de>
Date:       2023-12-22 19:59:42
Message-ID: 87jzp6xb2p.fsf () turtle ! gmx ! de
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On 2023-12-22 11:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
>>   https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges
>>
>> still says:
>>
>>  "In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the
>>   original data file. Check the contents of /etc/timezone to see the
>>   name of the timezone. If the system is configured normally, you
>>   should find that the zoneinfo file referenced by this name is
>>   identical to /etc/localtime."
>
> I'd change it immediately, but I don't want to make a change that isn't
> correct.
>
> Was this paragraph actually correct for Etch?  Was /etc/localtime a
> literal *copy* of a file instead of symlink?

Yes.

> If so, when did it change?

In tzdata 2016a-1[1].

> Or, was this wrong for Etch, and /etc/localtime was always a symlink?

Initially /etc/localtime was a symlink, but in Etch it had been
converted to a file[2].

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144
2. https://bugs.debian.org/346342

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