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.