[Spacewalk-list] Timezone confusion

[Justin Sherrill]

On 1/13/10 5:50 PM, Jeffrey Watts wrote:
> I had the same problem on Satellite 5.3.  Apparently the installer sets
> the timezone by default to EST.  Here's what I had to do to set it to
> Central (this is on Satellite 5.3, so YMMV):
> 
> Overview->Locale Preferences (set the timezone in the top drop-down)
> 
> Feedback for Red Hat:
> 1) Please have the installer set the displayed timezone to the system
> timezone by default.
> 2) Perhaps I'm missing something, but the link to Locale Preferences is
> only under Overview.  Why isn't it under Admin, where one would think it
> should be located?

The reason it's not under 'admin' is because this is a per user setting.
 It's not server-wide.

If the timezone isnt' set explicitly for the user, it should inherit
whatever the spacewalk system is set to.  It uses the JVM's timezone
class to detect this.  I'm not sure why it would not be detecting it
properly.  Everything that the topic starter said he had done seemed
correct to me.  If i get some time I can test this.


-Justin


> 
> I haven't played with Spacewalk yet (just Satellite), so perhaps this
> has been fixed recently.
> 
> Jeffrey.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Kennedy, Ryan <rkennedy at paml.com
> <mailto:rkennedy at paml.com>> wrote:
> 
>     My Spacewalk server is showing all times in the web UI as EST.  My
>     '/etc/localtime' is a copy of the PST8PDT timezone file from
>     '/usr/share/zoneinfo' and I have the "ZONE" variable set to
>     "America/Los_Angeles" in '/etc/sysconfig/clock'.  It has been this
>     way since I built this server so I am confused as to why/where
>     spacewalk is getting the EST setting from.
> 
> 
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