Timezone reset on Amazon AMI update

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Published on 2012-04-04T10:15:04Z Indexed on 2012/04/04 11:32 UTC
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I have a server set up through Amazon AWS. It's Amazon's RHEL-based AMI. When I initially booted up the machine, I set the proper timezone by creating a symlink:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime

This works just fine, but whenever Amazon provides an update to their AMI the timezone automatically reverts to UTC. Is there a way around this or does it have to be manually set after each update?

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