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   On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:16:50 -0500   
   "Mike Powell" (1:2320/105)  wrote:   
      
   >   Re: Re: tzdata question   
   >   By: Wilfred van Velzen to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 01 2025 21:54:17   
   >    
   >  > 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.     
   >     
   > Yes, I also did that and it was also working until the recent update I   
   > mentioned.  Now, I can symlink /etc/localtime to the correct timezone   
   > and it will only stay set until the next time tzdata is updated.   
   > tzdata ignores what is in the /etc/localtime symlink and resets it to   
   > point to "America/Indiana/Indianapolis."   
   >    
   > So it is reading that information ("America/Indiana/Indianapolis")   
   > from somewhere that is not /etc/localtime and is also not   
   > /etc/timezone.  I would like to figure out where from so I can squash   
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   Did you try running grep in /etc and looking for Indiana?   
      
   I use neither of the methods either of you mentioned for setting the   
   timezone. I use datetimectl for that, which just updates /etc/localtime   
   anyway, I guess.   
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