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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:10:42 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>
To:        dieterbsd@engineer.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date
Message-ID:  <AANLkTim3Axh4FV8oCJSoBYHJEq4=XkhfNjPAxkH9sV-2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>
References:  <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM,  <dieterbsd@engineer.com> wrote:
>> And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime
>> was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a symlink,
>> I believe that approach could be problematic for FreeBSD, as it
>> could impose some unintended requirements on some of the start-up
>> scripts.
>
> I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being
> a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result.

+1. Many Linux distros do the same thing as well (Gentoo is just one example).
Thanks,
-Garrett



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