From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Henrik Carlqvist  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:03:24 +0000, Rich wrote:   
   >> If you go back in time far enough, yes, the Slackware installer did a   
   >> "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/xx/yyy /etc/localtime" to set your timezone.   
   >>   
   >> I don't recall what version made the switch to the symlink.   
   >   
   > I don't remember for sure which version of Slackware got the timezone   
   > setting reseted by a package upgrade, maybe it was Slackware 9.1 or   
   > somewhere around that era.   
   >   
   > Looking at the doinst.sh for the glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n-noarch-1.tg   
   > for Slackware 9.1 it does seem to use symlinks, but seem to mess with   
   > etc/localtime unless etc/localtime-copied-from already exist and that   
   > file (or link) does not seem to be created by the original   
   > glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.2-noarch-1.tgz for Slackware 9.1.   
      
   FWIW, Slack 13.1 still has the copied file and the sentinel 'copied   
   from' symlink.   
      
   So the switch to a pure symlink for /etc/localtime happened sometime   
   after 13.1.  15.0 has just the symlink for /etc/localtime.   
      
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