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

[Skunk Worx]

Forrest Taylor wrote:
> 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
> 

Yes, it's the binary file /etc/localtime.

It appears livecd-creator doesn't trigger a code path into 
"tzdata-update" (directly) or via "build-locale-archive" (indirectly) 
whereas a kickstart or "normal" anaconda install does.

For now I'm going to dynamically update it during startup with 
"tzdata-update".

Thanks,
John