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Asked: 2012-10-19 10:55:03 +0800 CST

incorrect time zone set in Ubuntu 12.04 through puppet

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I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and use puppet to change the timezone from UTC to PST when the server comes up. Puppet's timezone recipe which I am using is this: Puppet Time Recipe

Things were working fine with Ubuntu 10.04, now we are moving to Ubuntu 12.04 and this Puppet recipe doesn't work. Reason I figured out is in 10.04 /etc/localtime is a file with contents PST8PDT whereas in 12.04 it is a symlink(because of puppet recipe) and it is linked to SystemV/ but the path of SystemV directory is not correct. When I do a ls -l in /etc

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 18 18:38 localtime -> ../SystemV/PST8PDT

But there is no SystemV folder one level up of /etc. I changed the puppet recipe to this:

class timezone::pacific inherits timezone {
file { "/etc/localtime":
    require => Package["tzdata"],
 #   source => "file:///usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific",
    source => "file:///usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/PST8PDT",

and it worked and localtime was no longer a link. Can anyone please help me understand why the puppet recipe which I inherited and was working fine on 10.04 didnt work on 12.04 and why changing the recipe to the new SystemV destination fixed it .

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1 Answers

  1. It is a bit odd. On my 12.04 VM both /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/PST8PDT and /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific are a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles. Either path you used should have resulted in a /etc/localtime which was a link to ../America/Los_Angeles.

    Have you considered doing a links => follow? That way puppet would resolve the symlink and copy the contents instead of copying the symlink.

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