Comment 30 for bug 26926

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:32:16 -0200
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <email address hidden>
To: Martin Stolle <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#342887: util-linux: please copy /etc/localtime

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Martin Stolle wrote:
> The only valid solution is to copy the appropriate timezone info to
> /etc/localtime. Rerunning tzconfig or recopying this file when

That's what will be done, when we prove it to the glibc people that it is
save (i.e. please do so on your system, and report back that NOTHING
breaks...).

I have that running on two systems already, no problems so far. I believe we
have to test the KDE and GNOME timezone setting stuff too, but those should
be changed in Debian to use tzconfig and /etc/timezone anyway, so if they
break, we just fix them and go ahead.

> /usr/share/zoneinfo is updated is a perfectly fine solution and by far
> the least hackiest solution.

Yes. TZ=something is just a workaround.

BTW, RedHat does what we are trying to do, so I am pretty sure we won't have
much problems, just some Debian scripts (in the glibc package) to fix.

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