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

[Derek Broughton]

David M. Karr wrote:

> NoOp wrote:

>> 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. 

Except that it isn't _supposed_ to be a symlink, which leaves one to wonder
what you've broken now (and fwiw I've never had a tz problem in Java
with /etc/localtime being a real file).
-- 
derek