Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:56:34 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Ken Cochran <kwc@theworld.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5 Message-ID: <01ef01c767a0$9ecdbc60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com><00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <B465B88A-0E57-4A2D-836C-45A075F9356B@mac.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc: "Ken Cochran" <kwc@theworld.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5
> 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.
>
Maybe they want the timezone to be correct if you boot into
single user mode and don't mount /usr?
Ted
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