Hi Greg,
Am 22.12.2023 um 17:11 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges
still says:
"In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the
original data file. Check the contents of /etc/timezone to see the
name of the timezone. If the system is configured normally, you
should find that the zoneinfo file referenced by this name is
identical to /etc/localtime."
I'd change it immediately, but I don't want to make a change that isn't
correct.
Was this paragraph actually correct for Etch? Was /etc/localtime a
literal *copy* of a file instead of symlink? If so, when did it change?
Or, was this wrong for Etch, and /etc/localtime was always a symlink?
I have Etch running here, and the /etc/localtime file is not a symlink,
nor a hardlink to a zone file:
TomBombadil:~# ls -lhi /etc/timezone /etc/localtime
159667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 2020-11-14 18:27 /etc/localtime
140 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 2020-11-14 18:27 /etc/timezone
TomBombadil:~# ls -lhi /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
186905 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 2008-10-17 18:57
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
TomBombadil:~# diff -q /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
; echo $?
0
TomBombadil:~# cat /etc/debian_version
4.0
Cheers,
Arno
