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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:16:50 -0500
"Mike Powell" (1:2320/105)  wrote:

>   Re: Re: tzdata question
>   By: Wilfred van Velzen to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 01 2025 21:54:17
> 
>  > On Ubuntu I've only once set /etc/localtime to symlink to
>  > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam (in my case). As described in
>  > 'man 5 localtime'. I've never touched or editted /etc/timezone.
>  > That might be set automatically (on boot, but I don't really
>  > know), from where /etc/localtime links to...
>  > 
>  > This is on multiple servers, that have been running for years, and
>  > are kept to date regularly.  
>  
> Yes, I also did that and it was also working until the recent update I
> mentioned.  Now, I can symlink /etc/localtime to the correct timezone
> and it will only stay set until the next time tzdata is updated.
> tzdata ignores what is in the /etc/localtime symlink and resets it to
> point to "America/Indiana/Indianapolis."
> 
> So it is reading that information ("America/Indiana/Indianapolis")
> from somewhere that is not /etc/localtime and is also not
> /etc/timezone.  I would like to figure out where from so I can squash
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Did you try running grep in /etc and looking for Indiana?

I use neither of the methods either of you mentioned for setting the
timezone. I use datetimectl for that, which just updates /etc/localtime
anyway, I guess.
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