[Bug 1206199] Re: /etc/localtime incorrect link created by dateandtime kcm

[Harald Sitter]

** Description changed:

- Setting the timezone in the timeanddate kcm (by right clicking the clock and going to configuration) copies a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/<region>/<city>. 
- So for example it tries copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin <-- This file however is a link pointing to ../posix/Europe/Berlin. As the file gets copied to /etc/localtime the symlink is wrong. 
- This results in a bad timezone and time (as it defaults to UTC on a wrong /etc/localtime file). 
+ Setting the timezone in the timeanddate kcm (by right clicking the clock and going to configuration) copies a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/<region>/<city>.
+ So for example it tries copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin <-- This file however is a link pointing to ../posix/Europe/Berlin. As the file gets copied to /etc/localtime the symlink is wrong.
+ This results in a bad timezone and time (as it defaults to UTC on a wrong /etc/localtime file).
  
- Instead of copying linking should work here. I attached a patch which fixes this error. 
+ Instead of copying linking should work here. I attached a patch which fixes this error.
  This seems not to be an upstream issue as at least openSUSE is not using symlinks in /usr/share/zoneinfo . So it is debian/ubuntu specific.
+ 
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+ zic bug is bug #1212662

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