Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

[David Wolfskill]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:38:29PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:27:32PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> 
> > There are other ways to do it, of course -- e.g., the first time the
> > utility is run, it could actually ask, but then cache the information in
> > some place so it could look there first (and if it finds a cached
> > answer, avoid asking again unless it's told to ignore the cache -- as
> > might be reasonable if the machine is moved to a different time zone.
> 
> That's what tzsetup does in HEAD - the name of the selected timezone file
> is stored in /var/db/zoneinfo, and tzsetup -r can be used to copy in an
> updated file:
> 
>   -r  Reinstall the zoneinfo file installed last time. The
>       name is obtained from /var/db/zoneinfo.
> 
> It looks like this hasn't been MFC'd, although I'm not sure why.  The
> change came in from svn rev 198267 by edwin (CC'd).

Thanks for pointing that out -- I had failed to consider that the
behavior might have changed in head.

It does seem to me that an MFC would be useful and harmless, based only
on the above information.

Peace,
david
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