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Description of problem:

setting the machine to CST timezone then trigger a kdump, the dir under /var/crash is not named using CST timezone

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kexec-tools-2.0.4-2.el7.x86_64
3.10.0-0.rc6.63.el7.x86_64
How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a host using ks and set timezone to below
grep -i time /root/anaconda-ks.cfg 
# System timezone
timezone Asia/Shanghai --isUtc 
2. trigger a kdump
3.

Actual results:
# ll /var/crash
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 42 Jun 26 18:22 127.0.0.1-2013.06.26-09:54:43
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 42 Jun 27 11:04 127.0.0.1-2013.06.26-11:23:08
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
the FS timestamp using system timezone            ^^^^^^
                                                  the folders isn't, so the kexecing kernel didn't used the system timezone.

Expected results:

tested on a rhel6 machine, kexecing kernel used system timezone

[root@dhcp-10-30 ~]# grep -i time /root/anaconda-ks.cfg 
timezone --utc Asia/Shanghai
[root@dhcp-10-30 ~]# ll /var/crash/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 11:20 127.0.0.1-2013-06-28-11:19:58
[root@dhcp-10-30 ~]# uname -r
2.6.32-220.39.1.el6.x86_64

Additional info:

We have fixed it in kexec-tools-2.0.4-7. So I'm closing this bz. Feel free to reopen it if you meet this issue again.