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Bug 53457

Summary: Explanation for creating time symlink in manual needs extra step.
Product: [OLD] Docs-user Reporter: Kelly <kellykristiaan>
Component: HandbookAssignee: Docs Team <docs-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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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
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-06-09 15:46:08 UTC
thats why it says 'ln -sf' and not 'ln -s'