https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372923
--- Comment #3 from Don Beusee <don(a)beusee.com> ---
I've read some of the history on this issue, and I don't agree with maintaining
your own branch of the package. Your fix ignores the ill configured system
(/etc/localtime out of sync with /usr/share/zoneinfo), which means the system
will give incorrect time due to rule changes which /etc/localtime doesn't know
about because it's out of date. I'd rather SOME program tells me something is
wrong so I can fix it. On top of localtime being wrong, tzfile's guess can
also be wrong and then you have 2 wrongs. It's better to raise an error so the
sysadmin can fix the system and everything is set right again. And you don't
have to maintain a branch of code trying to ignore a DST patch not properly
applied. I am betting you could talk the package owner into producing a better
error message indicating something being wrong with /etc/localtime.
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