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  1. Bug #1227520
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 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 Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:41:54PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, absolutely *not*. Do not pile more hacks on top of hacks. It is a bug
> that /etc/adjtime is present, and it is a bug that timedated attempts to
> manipulate it in Ubuntu.

I said "as long as this is the case", which means that it's valid to
make it so that it is not the case. That's what you did, which is fine
(as long as upgrades are cleaned up too). Thanks for that.

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