Subj : Re: tzdata question
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Apr 01 2025 03:16 pm

  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 it.
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