On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Klaus Klein wrote:
> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> 
> >    This reminds me, what happened of the plan to link /etc/localtime to
> >    usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory by default?
> > 
> > wow, didn't know about this.  please, make it so.
> 
> This installing a link should be dealt with by sysinst (the old
> shell-based installation procedure did at least provide _some_
> functionality to do this, unlike sysinst), or not be dealt with at
> all, effectively meaning GMT.

True.

> The referred manual page is not a source of information relevant to
> this configuration issue.

I agree. I think there should be a localtime(5) manpage. Most people
don't need to know how to create new timezones with zic, just how
to pick one.

If people agree, I'll even make the manpage.

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