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Re: Updating RH box for upcoming DST change



On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:09:36PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> Is there any advantage to copying versus soft linking?  That is, is
> there any reason not to softlink like so:
> 
> # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
> 
> I just did the softlink and it seems to work fine:

I've been wondering this for a while myself, and I just realized why
it isn't a symlink...  You want the timezone information to work on
boot before /usr is mounted.

Steve
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