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Re: daylight savings time



On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:08AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it.
> 
> I think a symlink would be better as well, but Debian doesn't do it for
> some reason:
> 
>  $ ls -li /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific 
>   152487 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1017 Mar 31 10:27 /etc/localtime
>    38530 -rw-r--r--    4 root     root         1017 Mar 24 08:59 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
>  $ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific 

Interesting.  My debian potato box does have a symlink:

$ ls -l /etc/localtime 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Jan 13 12:12 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT

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