Note that this specific symlink was special cased because sandboxed programs still need to access timezones. Also note that you would need to be root to create

Note that this specific symlink was special cased because sandboxed programs still need to access timezones. Also note that you would need to be root to create that special cased symlink. It's embarrassing, but less catastrophic than it looks at first glance. Running security-critical code as root is still a bad idea.