From: jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid   
      
   Rich  writes:   
      
   > Your system timezone is set via a symlink (usually) at /etc/localtime   
   > which points to the appropriate zone file stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo   
   > (Slack 15).   
   Don't quote me on this, but I think a long time ago, Slackware used to   
   use a file instead of the symlink. glibc advises the symlink. At some   
   point it switched over. There's been alot of major changes over the   
   years for Slackware (PAM and Avahi come to mind).   
      
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