> | you'll have all sorts of problems down the road. Spend the extra 5 seconds 
> | it takes to type:
> | 
> |    ln -f -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
> 
> FWIW, US/Eastern (and all of US/*) is deprecated. America/New_York is
> the "right" choice, though it may seem less friendly and more partisan
> than US/Eastern (convention is Continent/MajorCity or somesuch).

What a crock.  US/Eastern was far more correct.  People in the US call timezones
by their names far more often than "New York time".  They might not even know
what timezone a particular city is in.

There's occasionally talk of Chicago migrating to the Eastern time zone.

Where did this brain damage come from?