# Note on configuration change (2020-12-09): # For the past decade and a half, this package has created a symlink # /etc/localtime-copied-from and a file /etc/localtime to prevent # time skew until /usr is mounted. But having a separate /usr partition # hasn't really made sense for a long time and leads to all kinds of # bugs these days. We're going to make /etc/localtime a symlink just # like everyone else does so that programs that expect it to be a link # can fetch the timezone without requiring any special patches. # If you insist on making /usr a separate partition, you might want to # put the pointed-to directories and timezone file in your empty /usr # directory so that it is available before the real /usr is mounted. # Still not recommended though. # In a special case, we will handle the removal of the US/Pacific-New # timezone. A bit of background information on this: # # "US/Pacific-New' stands for 'Pacific Presidential Election Time', # which was passed by the House in April 1989 but never signed into law. # In presidential election years, this rule would have delayed the # PDT-to-PST switchover until after the election, to lessen the effect # of broadcast news election projections on last-minute west-coast # voters. " # # In nearly all cases, a machine that uses the US/Pacific-New timezone # has chosen it by mistake. In 2016, having this as the system timezone # actually led to clock errors, and after that it was decided that the # timezone (only of historical interest anyway) should be removed from # the timezone database. # # If we see that the machine's localtime-copied-from symlink is pointing # to US/Pacific-New, change it to point to US/Pacific instead. if [ "$(/bin/ls -l etc/localtime-copied-from 2> /dev/null | rev | cut -f 1,2 -d / | rev)" = "US/Pacific-New" ]; then ( cd etc ; rm -rf localtime-copied-from ) ( cd etc ; ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific localtime-copied-from ) fi # Same with any /etc/localtime symlink: if [ -L etc/localtime ]; then if [ "$(/bin/ls -l etc/localtime 2> /dev/null | rev | cut -f 1,2 -d / | rev)" = "US/Pacific-New" ]; then ( cd etc ; rm -rf localtime ) ( cd etc ; ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific localtime ) fi fi # If we already have a localtime-copied-from symlink, move it over as the # /etc/localtime symlink: if [ -L etc/localtime-copied-from ]; then rm -f etc/localtime mv etc/localtime-copied-from etc/localtime fi # Add the default timezone in /etc, if none exists: if [ ! -r etc/localtime ]; then ( cd etc ; rm -rf localtime localtime-copied-from ) ( cd etc ; ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory localtime-copied-from ) fi # Add a link to the timeconfig script in /usr/share/zoneinfo: ( cd usr/share/zoneinfo ; rm -rf timeconfig ) ( cd usr/share/zoneinfo ; ln -sf /usr/sbin/timeconfig timeconfig ) ### Make the rest of the symbolic links in the zoneinfo database: