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.
The one (and only) problem that I've seen from using a symlink for
/etc/localtime is that -- since the /usr partition is not mounted
early-on -- boot messages get logged in GMT offset until /usr is
mounted.
However, some simply ignore this.
What boot messages are these?
grep 2011 /var/run/dmesg.boot
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