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Bug 53457 - Explanation for creating time symlink in manual needs extra step.
Summary: Explanation for creating time symlink in manual needs extra step.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2004-06-09 15:25 UTC by Kelly
Modified: 2004-06-09 15:46 UTC (History)
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Description Kelly 2004-06-09 15:25:10 UTC 
In the handbook it states that one should create a symlink to the local timezone at /etc/localtime. What is not mentioned is that a factory-default timezone file is already installed and that it can and should be deleted in favor of the symlink.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-06-09 15:46:08 UTC 
thats why it says 'ln -sf' and not 'ln -s'