--- rc.sysinit.orig	2006-12-21 12:30:04.000000000 +0200
+++ rc.sysinit	2006-12-21 12:41:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 status "Mounting Root Read-only" /bin/mount -n -o remount,ro /
 
 # Set clock early to fix some bugs with filesystem checks
-# Clock is set again later to match rc.conf
+# /etc/localtime should match rc.conf already or it won't work 
 if [ -f /etc/localtime ]; then
 	if [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "UTC" ]; then
 		/sbin/hwclock --directisa --utc --hctosys --noadjfile
@@ -232,10 +232,7 @@
 if [ ! -f /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime ]; then
 	echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
 fi
-if [ "$TIMEZONE" != "" -a -e /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE ]; then
-	/bin/rm -f /etc/localtime
-	/bin/cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE /etc/localtime
-fi
+# Configure the clock again just to take adjtime into account
 if [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "UTC" ]; then
 	/sbin/hwclock --directisa --utc --hctosys
 else