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.
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.