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Authored by emaste on Nov 23 2023, 7:20 PM.
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Use a symlink for /etc/localtime unless it already exists and isn't a symlink.

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emaste created this revision.

I, perhaps naively, still prefer your approach in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37005. However, I may not appreciate valid cases where /usr might not be mounted. This is certainly a step in the right direction.

Doing something like this change (or D37004) now doesn't preclude D37005 from going in later.