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Incomplete ProceduresIncomplete ProceduresPosted Mar 7, 2007 17:17 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)In reply to: Incomplete Procedures by mikeraz Parent article: Switching your Linux systems to the new DST (Linux-Watch)
Whenever I have a choice I make /etc/localtime a symlink to the real zone file. The only case where I think /etc/localtime as a standalone file is reasonable is when you need localtime before mounting /usr. And how often does that come up?
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Incomplete Procedures Posted Mar 7, 2007 21:46 UTC (Wed) by jimmybgood (guest, #26142) [Link] When I mount a file system I like to run sanity checks on the superblock information as well as check to see if enough time has passed to require a file system check. Both of these require knowledge of the local time.
So my /etc/localtime is a copy of the zoneinfo not a symlink. BTW, this is how Debian and Fedora do it.
Incomplete Procedures Posted Mar 7, 2007 22:39 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] What are these sanity checks that require localtime? Surely your superblock, if it stores times, should be storing them in UTC?
And "check[ing] to see if enough time has passed" doesn't seem like it would need localtime either, it's actually easier to calculate time deltas using UTC than localtime?
Curiously yours,
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