systemd/drop-timezone.patch

Index: systemd-44/src/timedate/timedated.c
===================================================================
--- systemd-44.orig/src/timedate/timedated.c
+++ systemd-44/src/timedate/timedated.c
@@ -203,24 +203,18 @@ static int read_data(void) {
 
         free(t);
 
-        r = read_one_line_file("/etc/timezone", &tz.zone);
-        if (r < 0) {
-                if (r != -ENOENT)
-                        log_warning("Failed to read /etc/timezone: %s", strerror(-r));
-
 #if defined(TARGET_FEDORA) || defined(TARGET_SUSE)
-                r = parse_env_file("/etc/sysconfig/clock", NEWLINE,
+       r = parse_env_file("/etc/sysconfig/clock", NEWLINE,
 #ifdef TARGET_FEDORA
-                                   "ZONE", &tz.zone,
+                          "ZONE", &tz.zone,
 #else /* TARGET_SUSE */
-                                   "TIMEZONE", &tz.zone,
+                          "TIMEZONE", &tz.zone,
 #endif
-                                   NULL);
+                          NULL);
 
-                if (r < 0 && r != -ENOENT)
-                        log_warning("Failed to read /etc/sysconfig/clock: %s", strerror(-r));
+        if (r < 0 && r != -ENOENT)
+              log_warning("Failed to read /etc/sysconfig/clock: %s", strerror(-r));
 #endif
-        }
 
 have_timezone:
         if (isempty(tz.zone)) {
@@ -263,12 +257,6 @@ static int write_data_timezone(void) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
-        if (stat("/etc/timezone", &st) == 0 && S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
-                r = write_one_line_file_atomic("/etc/timezone", tz.zone);
-                if (r < 0)
-                        return r;
-        }
-
         return 0;
 }