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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:12:29 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Ken Cochran <kwc@theworld.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5
Message-ID:  <B465B88A-0E57-4A2D-836C-45A075F9356B@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
References:  <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com> <00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>

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On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> echo "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime"
> [ ... ]
>
> I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it.  I think it's
> been a while since they used softlinks for localtime

The use of "ln -s" will work just fine as written.  I don't know why  
tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a  
symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become  
out-of-sync if one updates the files under /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo  
without re-running tzsetup again.

-- 
-Chuck




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