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

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".