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?
