Well, sure, but the timezone-data ebuild could be upgraded to check to
see if /etc/localtime is "old" or not and inform the user or even take
appropriate steps to automatically fix this (dangerous?)

This may not be possible with a direct copy to /etc/localtime, but it
should work with the /etc/timezone/MST7MDT idea since the
corresponding file can be located and compared.

-Daniel

On 2/16/07, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:36:53 -0700 "Daniel Robbins"
> <drobbins.daniel@...> wrote:
> | Um, alternatively you could just copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/foo to
> | /etc/localtime rather than having a symlink. Since the zoneinfo file
> | has the name of the timezone in it already, it is probably not
> | necessary to preserve the filename of the timezone file.
>
> No good when timezone-data is updated.
>
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