Subj : Re: tzdata question
To   : Mike Powell
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Apr 03 2025 05:40 pm

Hi Mike,

On 2025-04-03 10:06:00, you wrote to me:

 >> Current default time zone: 'Europe/Amsterdam'
 >> Local time is now:      Thu Apr  3 10:29:57 CEST 2025.
 >> Universal Time is now:  Thu Apr  3 08:29:57 UTC 2025.
 >> Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

 >> All went smoothly.

 >> /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone have a new timestamp (set to the date/time
 >> of the update). And are still correct...

 MP> The new timestamps show that tzdata updated the both of them.

 MP> Where is it getting this info from to update those two datasets?

I found this file on one of the updated systems:

/var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2025b-0ubuntu0.22.04_all.deb

Inside it are shell scripts that use/touch those files...


Bye, Wilfred.

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