>  | (BTW, I think I'll leave mine as US/Eastern until support for it is 
>  | completely removed. *Anything* to avoid an explicit reference to New York 
>  | on my machine! ;-)
>
>I actually install the timezone by removing the symlink, and then copying
>the appropriate zoneinfo file into /etc/localtime.  That saves some path
>traversals (a meaningless trivial gain) and makes time conversions work
>in single use mode (when /usr/share doesn't exist).  It loses the documentation
>provided by the symlink of what is actually installed, and where to look for
>replacements.   In your case, you'd lose the explicit reference...

in cases like this, if not getting the right time in single user mode
is really bothersome, i'd say it's allowable (if not immediately
obvious) to put a *few* files from /usr into the the actual /usr
directory off /, not the separate partition.

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