Description of problem: Fedora / Red Hat currently doesn't support setting the system clock to UTC on build. This is the case as far as kickstart installs are concerned (also applicable to Satellite server installs). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All How reproducible: A sample of configuring the time zone for a kickstart file: timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles While --utc is there, that only sets the clock for the hardware clock. You can not specify something like the following: timezone --utc UTC Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: An administrator should be able to set the system clock (not hardware clock) to UTC. Additional info:
Looks like "UTC" is not in the list of things supported by system-config-date, though "Etc/UTC" certainly is.
... which is the same thing (just more organized ;-)). This should cut it for you then: timezone --utc Etc/UTC
Quickly looking at the satellite server, under System Details --> Locale option, I'm not seeing Etc/UTC in there as an option, when configuring a kickstart.
I guess that this needs to be changed in the Satellite Server.
Assigning the spacewalk group to take a look at this. Again, this is for kickstarts from the RHN Satellite server (and spacewalk server).
Aligning under space16.
(In reply to comment #3) > Quickly looking at the satellite server, under System Details --> Locale > option, I'm not seeing Etc/UTC in there as an option, when configuring a > kickstart. Please use the Kickstart Details > Advanced Options > timezone field to set the timezone -- you can put in --utc Etc/UTC or any other time zone. I'm actually thinking about removing the System Details > Locale page since we will have hard times providing correct list of locales for all versions of anaconda for all OSes that can be provisioned.