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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Mike Powell    |
|    Re: tzdata question    |
|    03 Apr 25 17:40:03    |
      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 67eeac30       REPLY: 8434.fi-linux@1:2320/105 2c53fb44       Hi Mike,              On 2025-04-03 10:06:00, you wrote to me:               >> Current default time zone: 'Europe/Amsterdam'        >> Local time is now: Thu Apr 3 10:29:57 CEST 2025.        >> Universal Time is now: Thu Apr 3 08:29:57 UTC 2025.        >> Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.               >> All went smoothly.               >> /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone have a new timestamp (set to the date/time        >> of the update). And are still correct...               MP> The new timestamps show that tzdata updated the both of them.               MP> Where is it getting this info from to update those two datasets?              I found this file on one of the updated systems:              /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2025b-0ubuntu0.22.04_all.deb              Inside it are shell scripts that use/touch those files...                     Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.2.4-B20240523        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 18/200 50/22 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187 129/305       SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 154/10 30 110 203/0 218/700 221/0 6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 114 206 275 300 317 400 426 428 470 550 616 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 705 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 291/111 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 460/58 256 1124 5858 467/888 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 902/26 5020/400 545 5054/30 5075/35       PATH: 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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