Comment # 7 on bug 846909 from Mark Goldstein

(In reply to Mark Goldstein from comment #6)
> I bumped into the same issue with current TW release:
> NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
> # VERSION="20160928"
> ID=opensuse
> ID_LIKE="suse"
> VERSION_ID="20160928"
> 
> /etc/localtime is ../../<timezone_file> instead of
> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/<timezone_file>
> 
> rpm -q --qf "%{DISTURL}" timezone 
> returns 
> obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory/standard/
> 29e4864f5e89ba25e9bd87c9cf9bb637-timezone
> 
> ... and zic -l <timezone> in my case did not restore the correct link.
> After I removed the link and manually set the correct one, I tried zic -l
> again and got a wrong value again.
> 
> (Tried different timezones with zic -l and got the same broken link
> ../../<timezone>)
> 
> With broken link the system uses UTC as local zone.

If I use full path in zic command, the link is set correctly:
zic -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/XXX/YYY
links /etc/localtime to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/XXX/YYY