Ubuntu
tzdata package

  1. Bug #1554806
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1554806

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Lars Kruse (devel-sumpfralle) wrote :

According to the upstream package maintainer in Debian (Aurelien Jarno), /etc/localtime is the authoritive source of information, while /etc/timezone is just a Debian-specific artifact.

Thus the preferred approach for changing the timzone is indeed the change of the /etc/localtime symlink, followed by dpkg-reconfigure.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813226#10 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848143#10.