On Thursday 01 November 2007, you wrote: > Instead of reading /etc/timezone, you can obtain the local time zone > reading the output of the command: > > $ date +%Z > > So I think that it would be enough to substitute > in /usr/lib/rootstrap/modules/uml the line > > [ ! -e $HOST/etc/timezone ] || TARGET_TIMEZONE="$(cat > $HOST/etc/timezone)" > > with > > TARGET_TIMEZONE=`date +%Z` > > Regards, Giovanni.
Thanks for the hint. However, I am sorry to point out, this is not good enough. But then again, I've learned a little bit more since I first filed this report. What I wrote there was not wholly correct. I wrote > for me, in Denmark, "echo CET > /etc/timezone" on the host makes rootstrap > work just fine. What I really should have written in my original posting was echo Europe/Paris > /etc/timezone that is, the "tzdata" code, not the timezone. The problem with your proposal is that "CET" only gives the timezone; the tzdata indication gives the DST logic, too. And that is what is needed. I *think* - but I don't *know*, knowing too little about how tzdata is used in modern Debian - that the whole problem can be reduced to copying the host /etc/localtime to the target /etc/localtime. The alternative seems to be copying some of the code in tzdata.postinst, something like: LC_ALL=C LANG=C unset TZ umask 022 . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_version 2.0 # Get the values from debconf AREA=Etc ZONE=UTC db_get tzdata/Areas && AREA="$RET" db_get tzdata/Zones/$AREA && ZONE="$RET" db_stop chroot $TARGET cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/$AREA/$ZONE /etc/localtime I would dearly like second opinions on this topic. best regards -- Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefionsvej 19 spejder-e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-8230 Åbyhøj tel: +45 87 44 11 99 Denmark mob: +45 30 91 84 31