On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:08 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0500, Erik Anderson wrote:
> > On 3/28/07, Rob Terhaar <robbyt at robbyt.net> wrote:
> > > ok can someone explain why just doing
> > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
> > >
> > > is bad?
> > 
> > I've wondered the same thing in the past.  The best explanation I
> > could come up with is that if you're symlinking your tz file and have
> > /usr on a separate partition and that partition fails to mount
> > someday, things could get messy.
> 
> On Debian, some script that reads the /etc/localtime file runs before
> /usr is mounted, so even in the absence of failure, your time will be
> off.

Meh.  The system defaults to showing times in "UTC" if /etc/localtime is
broken or nonexistent, and I can live with that.

-- 
Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu>
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