> On 13 Apr 2015, at 20:13, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > I see in CentOS 7 that /etc/localtime is a symlink (which seems > sensible...) but in earlier versions it is a copy of some file from > under /usr/share/zoneinfo. > rpm -q --scripts tzdata > does not show any postinstall script, so in the non-symlink versions, > how does the copied /etc/localtime file get updated with new zone > data? I believe it is by glibc-common on CentOS 6 - it may be the same on CentOS 7 James Pearson