Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:46:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <199604021946.VAA11241@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604021832.KAA29950@sneezy> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 2, 96 10:32:49 am
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As Nate Williams wrote: > > . Removed the gross code that copied over the timezone file to > > /etc/localtime, and create a symlink now instead. > > Please 'copy' the file to /etc/localtime. On smallish machines See the recent changes... > (laptops), it's a waste of disk space to keep all of /usr/share/zoneinfo > online, so I always blow it away. Having it as a file is a much saner > solution in any case b/c it's necessary when doing work in single-user > mode, or else time-stamps and such will be messed up. You have to keep all the zoneinfo files around, in case somebody wants to set `TZ' to some value (in which case /etc/localtime becomes meaningless, and the files under /usr/share/zoneinfo are always referenced -- even if `TZ' is set to the local timezone). Note that even tzsetup itself does set `TZ' to some value (to be used later in the game for a localtime(3) calculation)... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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