On 3/28/07, Rob Terhaar <robbyt at robbyt.net> wrote: > ok can someone explain why just doing > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime > > is bad? I've wondered the same thing in the past. The best explanation I could come up with is that if you're symlinking your tz file and have /usr on a separate partition and that partition fails to mount someday, things could get messy. I'm a gentoo user, and when I started using the distro, they recommended symlinking that file. Recently though, they've changed their recommendation to actually copy the tz file. -erik