--- mk-sbuild.orig	2015-10-23 20:14:11.000000000 +0000
+++ mk-sbuild	2016-04-12 14:45:07.627202739 +0000
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
 rm -f "$TEMP_SOURCES"
 
 # Copy the timezone (comment this out if you want to leave the chroot at UTC)
-sudo cp /etc/localtime /etc/timezone "$MNT"/etc/
+sudo cp -P /etc/localtime /etc/timezone "$MNT"/etc/
 # Create a schroot entry for this chroot
 TEMP_SCHROOTCONF=`mktemp -t schrootconf-XXXXXX`
 TEMPLATE_SCHROOTCONF=~/.mk-sbuild.schroot.conf