[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/2] fedora: Don't set timezone to UTC

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:47:56PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> --utc argument of timezone command is to set the clock to UTC, which is
>> not what we want.
>
> Why?
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#timezone says
> --utc
>
>     If present, the system assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC
>     (Greenwich Mean) time.
>
> On real hardware, I seem to remember --utc is what is recommended. I can
> understand if we have different requirements for a VM, but imo that deserves
> an explanation.

Never mind this patch. The main problem is that unattended
installation is broken in libosinfo+Boxes for F19. During
investigation, I misunderstood that '--utc' is also problematic but
now that I tested again, its not.

The real cause is that timezone abbreviations are no longer supported
and we must provide a standard tz string, e.g 'Europe/Helsinki' rather
than 'EET'. In Boxes we are relying on glib to get us tz and
unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a glib api to get the tz string
rather than abbreviations. Will need to see where/how to get that..


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124