Bug 2233514

Summary: Use of "uncommon" TZ names from the KS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Christophe Besson <cbesson>
Component: anacondaAssignee: anaconda-maint
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority: high    
Version: 8.8CC: jkonecny, jstodola, prathaku, sbarcomb
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Description Christophe Besson 2023-08-22 11:46:34 UTC
Description of problem:
A customer is wondering why they can't use TZ like ROK, ROC and CET and Brazil/East.
Has it been deliberately excluded?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-33.16.8.9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
add into the kickstart:
timezone --utc ROK

Actual results:
WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Timezone:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.timezone.timezone:Timezone is set to ROK.
WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Timezone:WARNING:anaconda.modules.timezone.installation:Timezone ROK set in kickstart is not valid, falling back to default (America/New_York).

Additional info:

pyanaconda/modules/timezone/installation.py:

     61     def _correct_timezone(self):
     62         """Ensure the timezone is valid."""
     63         if not is_valid_timezone(self._timezone):
     64             # this should never happen, but for pity's sake
     65             log.warning("Timezone %s set in kickstart is not valid, "
     66                         "falling back to default (America/New_York).", self._timezone)
     67             self._timezone = "America/New_York"

pyanaconda/timezone.py:

    151 def is_valid_timezone(timezone):
    152     """
    153     Check if a given string is an existing timezone.
    154 
    155     :type timezone: str
    156     :rtype: bool
    157 
    158     """
    159 
    160     etc_zones = ["Etc/" + zone for zone in ETC_ZONES]
    161 
    162     return timezone in pytz.common_timezones + etc_zones


$ python3 -c "import pytz; print(pytz.common_timezones)" |& grep -c ROK
0

$ python3 -c "import pytz; print(pytz.all_timezones)" |& grep -c ROK
1

Comment 4 Christophe Besson 2023-08-24 13:10:52 UTC
Raising as High as it was working with RHEL 6.10 and not later.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-18 16:47:08 UTC
Issue migration from Bugzilla to Jira is in process at this time. This will be the last message in Jira copied from the Bugzilla bug.

Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-18 17:31:06 UTC
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