Comment 28 for bug 26926

Message-ID: <20060112234406.5908.74020.reportbug@localhost>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:44:06 -0500
From: Martin Stolle <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: util-linux: please copy /etc/localtime

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-2
Followup-For: Bug #342887

I would like to reinforce that using TZ is NOT a valid answer... Either
TZ has to encode all the informatino from /usr/share/zoneinfo for the
appropriate timezone somehow (which I don't think would even be
possible!) OR it is set to a timezone spec that requires
/usr/share/zoneinfo itself!

The only valid solution is to copy the appropriate timezone info to
/etc/localtime. Rerunning tzconfig or recopying this file when
/usr/share/zoneinfo is updated is a perfectly fine solution and by far
the least hackiest solution.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libslang2 2.0.5-1 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 universally unique id library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

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