Are you unsetting your timezone, I hesitate to sound authoritative about because I really don't know, and have not found the correct man page yet. but usually y

Are you unsetting your timezone, I hesitate to sound authoritative about because I really don't know, and have not found the correct man page yet. but usually you symlink /etc/localtime to the tzfile you want as your local time. what happens when you symlink it to a directory? in your case /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc My guess it that it effectively unset it, in your case that probably does nothing(system time is utc and dublin is in utc) what was it set to before? edit: all I can find is localtime(5) and it only says that /etc/localtime is the local time zone file.