On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime
>> was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a symlink,
>> I believe that approach could be problematic for FreeBSD, as it
>> could impose some unintended requirements on some of the start-up
>> scripts.
>
> I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being
> a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result.

+1. Many Linux distros do the same thing as well (Gentoo is just one example).
Thanks,
-Garrett
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