Re: systemd and timezone

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 11:11:18 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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?

With the proviso that I don't know what "restorecon" does in
postinst scripts, this list of .debs has been prefixed by
c for copy and l for link:

  l-tzdata_2007b-1_all.deb
  l-tzdata_2008e-1etch3_all.deb
  c-tzdata_2011k-0lenny1_all.deb
  c-tzdata_2014e-0squeeze1_all.deb
  c-tzdata_2015c-1_all.deb
  c-tzdata_2015g-0+deb6u1_all.deb
  c-tzdata_2016d-0+deb7u1_all.deb
  c-tzdata_2018e-0+deb8u1_all.deb
  l-tzdata_2020a-0+deb9u1_all.deb
  l-tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u10_all.deb
  l-tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u11_all.deb

Cheers,
David.