[5721] in Release_7.7_team
possible linux DST issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Mar 2 15:26:42 2007
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:26:31 -0500
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It appears that in some (probably all) cases, updating the tzdata rpm,
does not touch /etc/localtime Since it appears that in most (all?)
cases /etc/localtime started out as a hard link (not a symlink) to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern, it is still a copy of the old zoneinfo
file. Given that a machine with an old /etc/localtime, but updated
tzdata rpm reports the correct thing via zdump, I'm not sure how much
of a concern this actually is. That said, I really don't have time to
look into it, and someone else probably should (or should explain that we
don't care, if we don't).
Jonathon
