Rick Troth wrote:
Personally, I always make it a sym-link:
ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime
This way, when you list /etc/localtime, you see where it points
and you get additional info, like what timezone is really intended.
Prior to /usr being mounted (if it is separate) your 'time' output
reports as UTC. This is not usually a problem because files in Unix
(and Linux, all POSIX) are stamped in UTC under the covers.
Red Hat used to make it a symlink, but now copies. A symlink fails if
the target is absent, and I guess RH found that that matters.
I think hard links are broken too, and suggest someone who's affected
report it as a bug.
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Cheers
John
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