I should have been more specific. This is not a vote as to where we should put the default.
If you think of the constraints (usually not NFS, user-writable), there are about two locations that make sense: /tmp or /var/tmp. Also remember that it makes no sense for those locks to survive reboot. So /tmp is the only location that makes sense. Remember that it is a default. Stuart's remark wrt /etc/daily is good, but /etc/daily can be fixed. What do you say ? default, or not default ?
