What Updates /etc/localtime?

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I see in CentOS 7 that /etc/localtime is a symlink (which seems sensible…) but in earlier versions it is a copy of some file from under /usr/share/zoneinfo. rpm -q –scripts tzdata does not show any postinstall script, so in the non-symlink versions, how does the copied /etc/localtime file get updated with new zone data?

3 thoughts on - What Updates /etc/localtime?

  • I believe it is by glibc-common on CentOS 6 – it may be the same on CentOS 7

    James Pearson

  • James Pearson wrote:

    That is, on CentOS 6, glibc-common has a triggerin script that runs
    /usr/sbin/tzdata-update when tzdata is installed/updated

    James Pearson