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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is /etc/localtime supposed to be a symlink or a copy?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:54:20
Message-Id: 200703171018.47519.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is /etc/localtime supposed to be a symlink or a copy? by Walter Dnes
1 On Saturday 17 March 2007 09:42, Walter Dnes wrote:
2
3 > Now it seems that /etc/localtime is a separate file. Fortunately, I
4 > found out about this possibility in a discussion in the local linux
5 > mailing list, and updated my /etc/localtime before the switchover.
6 >
7 > Was this a concious decision, or is it a bug?
8
9 Once it was a symlink, but now it's a real file (at least for x86). See
10 the handbook:
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12 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7#doc_chap1
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is /etc/localtime supposed to be a symlink or a copy? Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>