Well, sure, but the timezone-data ebuild could be upgraded to check to
see if /etc/localtime is "old" or not and inform the user or even take
appropriate steps to automatically fix this (dangerous?)

This may not be possible with a direct copy to /etc/localtime, but it
should work with the /etc/timezone/MST7MDT idea since the
corresponding file can be located and compared.

-Daniel

On 2/16/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:36:53 -0700 "Daniel Robbins"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Um, alternatively you could just copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/foo to
| /etc/localtime rather than having a symlink. Since the zoneinfo file
| has the name of the timezone in it already, it is probably not
| necessary to preserve the filename of the timezone file.

No good when timezone-data is updated.

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