Bug 473647

Summary:	RFE: allow more timezones in kickstart
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Curtis Doty <curtis>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Radek Vykydal <rvykydal>
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Description Curtis Doty 2008-11-29 18:58:42 UTC

A perfectly valid kickstart line:

  timezone --utc US/Pacific

Will produce this error.

  WARNING : Timezone US/Pacific set in kickstart is not valid, will ask

Comment 1 Radek Vykydal 2008-12-01 12:01:59 UTC

The choice of timezone specifiers is limited to that present
in timeconfig tool, that is in file /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart).

Comment 2 Curtis Doty 2008-12-03 01:04:29 UTC

This is too pedantic and should be fixed.

Whatabout the astronomer who's using Fedora/kickstart to deploy a cluster with right time? Whatabout the sysadmin who has an acceptable/valid enterprise standard beyond that short list?

I'll go away if you feel strongly it should only support zone.tab listed values. Frankly, I prefer to just symlink /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever in %post anyways. :-/ Which has it's own pros/cons.

Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2008-12-09 23:40:56 UTC

It seem that the Etc/GMT (+...) timezones would be particularly useful and easy to add. (See addNoGeoZones in /usr/share/system-config-date/zonetab.py)

Comment 4 Radek Vykydal 2009-02-17 15:47:23 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> It seem that the Etc/GMT (+...) timezones would be particularly useful and easy
> to add. (See addNoGeoZones in /usr/share/system-config-date/zonetab.py)
They are supported in current anaconda.

As for other specifiers, now when we have all zoneinfo files back in stage 2,
we could allow all respective specifiers in ks.

Comment 5 Radek Vykydal 2009-08-07 12:24:14 UTC

Should be fixed in version 12.11 of anaconda.
Thanks for the report.