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mohammads
Asked: 2015-06-26 23:39:25 +0800 CST

Snappy timezone

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I read the snappy config command, but I still can't change timezone. The example doesn't looks like a terminal command!

Can you help me to set my snappy timezone?

Thank you

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3 Answers

  1. You can use the snappy command. The timezone is a property of the OS, which in Ubuntu Core is called ubuntu-core and this snappy part is managed by snappy itself.

    To read the current configuration for a part just run

    snappy config [snap part]

    And to apply one run

    snappy config [snap part] [config]

    To particularly change the timezone (to America/Cordoba in this example)

    CONFIG=/tmp/core_config

snappy config ubuntu-core > "$CONFIG"
sed -i 's/timezone: .*$/timezone: America/Cordoba/' > "$CONFIG"
sudo snappy config ubuntu-core "$CONFIG"

    Take note that due to a bug in the snappy command itself, this can't be piped in one single statement which is why I show it in three lines.

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  2. the way it's done now is:

    sudo timedatectl set-timezone <timezone>

    you can get your timezone string for timedatectl with timedatectl:

    timedatectl list-timezones

    source: ogra's (contributor to Core) reply reply on the snapcraft forum.

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  3. sergiusens answer have few errors, example should look like this:

    CONFIG=/tmp/core_config

snappy config ubuntu-core > "$CONFIG"
sed -i 's/timezone: .*$/timezone: America\/Cordoba/' "$CONFIG"
sudo snappy config ubuntu-core "$CONFIG"

    Forward slash before "Cordoba" need to be escaped and do not use write symbol ">"

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