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  1. Bug #1227520
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1227520

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: [Bug 1227520] Re: Timezone changes are not working due to ro /etc and bind mounts

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:35:46PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:54:31AM -0000, Iain Lane wrote:
>
> > I think you need to care for /etc/timezone and maybe also /etc/adjtime
> > too.
>
> We absolutely do not need to do this for /etc/adjtime. /etc/adjtime is not
> used in Ubuntu, and shouldn't even be on the filesystem.

Missed this.

It is on the filesystem, and from reading the code it looks as if
timedated will error out if it is present and can't be written to.

So as long as this is the case, we absolutely do.

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