[Fedora-livecd-list] F7 general question about livecd-creator and timezones

[Forrest Taylor]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:04 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
> My ks scripts have the timezone set to PDT (America/Los_Angeles).
> 
> Installation to a hard drive works as expected. PDT in startup and in 
> shells, etc.
> 
> Creating a livecd-creator iso with the same tz setting, then booting, 
> shows A/L_A in the /etc/sysconfig/clock file, as expected.
> 
> However the date is always EDT in the boot messages, shells, etc.
> 
> During startup I see :
> 
> (lvm)
> Press I to enter interactive startup
> Setting clock (utc) Mon Jun 4 00:12:59 EDT 2007
> (udev)
> 
> I'm not clear on what is happening between lvm and udev in the Linux 
> startup sequence.

It is probably using the /etc/localtime to determine the time zone.
Replace that with /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles.

For the above entry, search for "Setting clock" in /etc/rc.sysinit.

Forrest
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