Re: clock UTC

[Bill Crawford <bill syseng netcom net uk>]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, E Nigma wrote:

> On Friday 28 December 2001 00:47, you wrote:
> > ?I'm strictly guessing, but I think it might be a link if you have a
> > single large partition for / and /usr, and a copy of the file if you
> > have separate / and /usr partitions (as I do) since otherwise the
> > file contents would be unavailable early in the boot sequence.
>
> Not that:
> [root numbat root]# file /etc/localtime
> /etc/localtime: timezone data
> [root numbat root]# mount | grep hd
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> [root numbat root]#
>
> As you can see, I have one partition for /boot and one for everything else.
>
> /home is an NFS mount.

 I guessed wrong, it's always copied now.

 This is probably a good idea ... if you upgraded your system and the
timezone you used was missing from the new glibc-common package for
any reason, or the directory structure was changed at all ... you'd be
in a mess.  It's a fairly trivial thing, though.

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