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   Mike Powell to All   
   tzdata question   
   01 Apr 25 14:36:39   
   
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   I am running debian.  Sometime in the past month, when I received a kernel   
   upgrade and also a tzdata upgrade, I noticed that the time was wrong on my   
   system.    
      
   Today, I saw (apt list --upgradable) that another tzdata update was coming.   
   Before I ran apt upgrade, I checked the following:   
      
   /etc/localtime -> pointed as shortcut to correct timezone   
   /etc/timezone -> contained the correct timezone   
      
   I watched the apt upgrade run.  When it came time for tzdata to reconfigure, it   
   said:   
      
   Current default time zone: 'America/Indiana/Indianapolis'   
      
   Which is wrong.   
      
   /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone were both now pointed to Indianapolis, which   
   is wrong and not what they said right before the upgrade.   
      
   So I ran dpkg-reconfigure and got it fixed again.    
      
   Out of curiousity, I also ran dkpg-reconfigure and then selected "cancel"   
   without making any choices.  Guess what?  tzdata set me back to "Indianapolis"!   
      
   This is happening on every debian/devuan/raspbian system that I have, and it   
   started happening sometime during the past month or six weeks after I received   
   a kernel/tzdata update.   
      
   I thought the time zone was saved in the two above places in /etc.  Is there   
   some other place that tzdata is reading from that I need to look at so that, in   
   future, whenever tzdata gets updated I don't have to remember to go back and   
   manually fix the time zone each time?   
      
   Thanks!   
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