I wrote:
| you'll have all sorts of problems down the road. Spend the extra 5 seconds
| it takes to type:
|
|    ln -f -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime

At 06:17 PM 7/15/00 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
>FWIW, US/Eastern (and all of US/*) is deprecated. America/New_York is
>the "right" choice, though it may seem less friendly and more partisan
>than US/Eastern (convention is Continent/MajorCity or somesuch).

I'll say! I would consider Boston and Washington D.C. to both be major 
cities, but neither is listed. (Although "Dawson_Creek" is.) How very, er, 
*odd*. Any idea what the logic is behind this switch? (some kind of 
statement of support for globalization???) I thought the old way worked 
just fine.

(BTW, I think I'll leave mine as US/Eastern until support for it is 
completely removed. *Anything* to avoid an explicit reference to New York 
on my machine! ;-)
(yes, I'm ducking! ;-)