[CentOS] tzdata

[John R Pierce]

Peter Serwe wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> cp the correct /usr/share/zoneinfo file to /etc/localdata, and also 
>> update /etc/sysconfig/(I forget) to have the TZ=therightthing.
> Hilariously, zic -l GMT does nothing more than make a symbolic link..
>
> 1 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      26 Feb  8 23:51 localtime -> 
> ..//usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT

mmmm.  on the glibc mail list archives I saw posts where they VERY 
specifically -stopped- sym linking a number of versions back... 
rationale was that if /usr or /usr/share is on a different filesystem 
than /etc, you will have problems with your log timestamps during bootup 
and in single user.