[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: F10 general question about livecd-creator and timezones

[Marc.Herbert at gmail.com]

Wow, Same time zone bug 2 years later, and same "tzdata-update" workaround!

I love email archives :-)


Skunk Worx <skunkworx at verizon.net> writes:

> 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".