How to figure out which, if any, update changed /etc/localtime from a link to a hard file?

[NoOp]

On 04/17/2009 09:59 AM, David M. Karr wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> Which version of tzdata-java do you have installed?
>> 
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=tzdata
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid-updates/tzdata-java
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata
> 
> I have version 2009a.
> 
>> The most recent updata for intrepid was:
>> 
>> 2009f-0ubuntu0.8.10
>> Published in intrepid-proposed on 2009-04-16
>> tzdata (2009f-0ubuntu0.8.10) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low
>>   * New timezone data 2009f: (LP: #358232):
>>     - Fix DST rules for Jordan, Palestine, and Pakistan.
>>  -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:41:46 +0200
> 
> That was, like, yesterday. :)
> 
> I don't see that it matters, however.  It seems pretty clear the tzdata 
> for my timezone is perfectly fine, but the algorithm used to find the 
> data was broken by the fact that /etc/localtime wasn't a symlink.  I 
> verified that fixing this problem fixed the problem on multiple JVMs, 
> even ones that I hadn't even run the 2009a tzdata on.
> 
> 

How did you find the problem? It might be helpful to others if you can
provide a link/ref in case someone else runs into the same in the future.

Interesting; none of my systems (hardy & intrepid) have /etc/localtime
symlinked. Now, usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime is a symlink *back* to
/etc/localtime.