Subject: Re: ROC timezone & politics?
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/24/2001 00:16:35
>> It seems they replace the ROC file with a link to Taipei. There's a
>> "Taipei" file in the patch, and this is in the pkgmap:
>>
>> 1 f none usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Asia/Taipei 0644 root bin 268 24632 983236083
>> 1 l none usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/ROC=../../../../usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Asia/Taipei
>
>Pointless. "ROC" is already a (hard) link to "Asia/Taipei".

but it's a hard link to something that already exists, rather than
existing of its own accord.  remember, this is politically motivated.
it doesn't have to make sense to normal people.  ;-)

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