On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:41:24AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 13 Sep 2019 at 08:35:51 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > > I'm saying that /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime should be consistent > > and valid, in which case they both do the same thing.
> Perhaps we'll just have to beg to differ. /etc/timezone looks very much > like a name to me. > > $ ls -l /etc/localtime /etc/timezone > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Aug 14 23:02 /etc/localtime -> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Aug 14 23:02 /etc/timezone > $ cat /etc/timezone > America/Chicago Yours are consistent and valid. They both call for the same timezone, and that timezone is one that's recognized as valid on Debian. So, all is well.
