Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

[Bill Moran]

In response to John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net>:

> On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
[snip]
> > Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new tables as a side-effect of
> > the upgrade :)  If you don't want to upgrade, just install the
> > misc/zoneinfo port and rerun tzsetup.
> 
> The last bit (rerunning tzsetup(8)) is good advice for anyone who hasn't run 
> it in a while. Upgrading from earlier versions of FreeBSD will install the 
> new tzdata files but it will not touch /etc/localtime.

Is there a good reason why FreeBSD copies the file instead of making a
symlink?  Doesn't seem like the best idea to me.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.