On Friday 15 October 2010 10:45:27 James Wu wrote: > When I run the cmd "date", I get UTC time on a fresh boot of an imaged > machine. I'd like to find a way to set the time to "America/New_York" > for automatically via script. A reboot is ok if absolutely needed but > not preferred. > > I'm aware that I can run "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" but that requires > user input. Depends on what frontend you use. > I've tried the following methods without success: > "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/timezone" Wrong file. /etc/timezone is just cosmetic, AFAIK. The target of your cp command should have been /etc/localtime. > + changing > "UTC=yes to UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS From what I understand, that only affect where > I've also tried "echo 'America/New_York' > /etc/timezone" as well > instead of copying. You might also want to do this, but /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone provide different information. /etc/localtime is machine-readable data that allows libc to map UTC times to local times; /etc/timezone is (I guess) the human- readable name of the local time. You shouldn't need to reboot; updates to /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone are automatically picked up by libc. > Is there another way to change the tzdata from > UTC without requiring user input? debconf-set-selections < $some_configs_in_a_file dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive "$changed_packages[@]" Maybe? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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