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Re: buster netinst timezone



On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:41:24AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 13 Sep 2019 at 08:35:51 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> > I'm saying that /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime should be consistent
> > and valid, in which case they both do the same thing.

> Perhaps we'll just have to beg to differ. /etc/timezone looks very much
> like a name to me.
> 
> $ ls -l /etc/localtime /etc/timezone
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Aug 14 23:02 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Aug 14 23:02 /etc/timezone
> $ cat /etc/timezone
> America/Chicago

Yours are consistent and valid.  They both call for the same timezone,
and that timezone is one that's recognized as valid on Debian.

So, all is well.


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