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   Message 8,111 of 8,232   
   Wilfred van Velzen to Mike Powell   
   Re: tzdata question   
   01 Apr 25 22:47:22   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.3.2.4-B20240523   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   CHRS: CP850 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20240604   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 67ec50f5   
   REPLY: 8426.fi-linux@1:2320/105 2c51a09c   
   Hi Mike,   
      
   On 2025-04-01 15:16:50, you wrote to me:   
      
    >> On Ubuntu I've only once set /etc/localtime to symlink to   
    >> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam (in my case). As described in 'man   
    >> 5 localtime'. I've never touched or editted /etc/timezone. That might   
    >> be set automatically (on boot, but I don't really know), from where   
    >> /etc/localtime links to...  This is on multiple servers, that have been   
    >> running for years, and are kept to date regularly.   
      
    MP> Yes, I also did that and it was also working until the recent update I   
    MP> mentioned.  Now, I can symlink /etc/localtime to the correct timezone and   
   it   
    MP> will only stay set until the next time tzdata is updated.  tzdata ignores   
   what   
    MP> is in the /etc/localtime symlink and resets it to point to   
    MP> "America/Indiana/Indianapolis."   
      
    MP> So it is reading that information ("America/Indiana/Indianapolis") from   
    MP> somewhere that is not /etc/localtime and is also not /etc/timezone.  I   
   would   
    MP> like to figure out where from so I can squash it.   
      
   Sorry, then I have no clue...   
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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