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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:57:15 -0400
From:      dieterbsd@engineer.com
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date
Message-ID:  <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>

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> And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime
> was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a symlink,
> I believe that approach could be problematic for FreeBSD, as it
> could impose some unintended requirements on some of the start-up
> scripts.

I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being
a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result.






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