Re: systemd and timezone

["Arno Lehmann, ITS" <al@its-lehmann.de>]

Hi Greg,

Am 22.12.2023 um 17:11 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> >    https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges
> >
> > still says:
> >
> >   "In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the
> >    original data file. Check the contents of /etc/timezone to see the
> >    name of the timezone. If the system is configured normally, you
> >    should find that the zoneinfo file referenced by this name is
> >    identical to /etc/localtime."
>
> I'd change it immediately, but I don't want to make a change that isn't
> correct.
>
> Was this paragraph actually correct for Etch?  Was /etc/localtime a
> literal *copy* of a file instead of symlink?  If so, when did it change?
>
> Or, was this wrong for Etch, and /etc/localtime was always a symlink?


I have Etch running here, and the /etc/localtime file is not a symlink, 
nor a hardlink to a zone file:

TomBombadil:~# ls -lhi /etc/timezone /etc/localtime
159667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 2020-11-14 18:27 /etc/localtime
   140 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14 2020-11-14 18:27 /etc/timezone
TomBombadil:~# ls -lhi /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
186905 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 2008-10-17 18:57 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
TomBombadil:~# diff -q /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime 
; echo $?
0
TomBombadil:~# cat /etc/debian_version
4.0

Cheers,

Arno