El miércoles, 31 de agosto de 2016, 13:02:06 (UTC), Andrew David Wong escribió:
> 
> On 2016-08-31 05:42, Pablo Di Noto wrote:
> > El miércoles, 31 de agosto de 2016, 12:26:42 (UTC), Andrew David Wong 
> > escribió:
> > 
> >> On 2016-08-31 04:48, Pablo Di Noto wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> Somewhere along the update from 3.1 to 3.2rc1 I started to have all my 
> >>> VMs take UTC as their timezone.
> >>> 
> >>> dom0 has the correct "America/Argentina/Cordoba" timezone, but all VMs 
> >>> get incorrectly set to "Argentina/Cordoba", which does not exists thus 
> >>> leaving them at UTC.
> >>> 
> >>> I know may have manually set somehow the wrong timezone (without the 
> >>> required "America/" prefix) at install or update. Now all my templates 
> >>> get set to "Argentina/Cordoba", which is the value they get from 
> >>> "qubesdb-read /qubes-timezone" at every boot by qubes-sysinit.sh
> >>> script.
> >>> 
> >>> I cannot figure out where that values comes from and how to fix it.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks in advance, ///Pablo
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> It might be worth trying to set the locale in your TemplateVM(s). For 
> >> example, these commands should work on fedora-23 (and some other
> >> distros):
> >> 
> >> To display your currently set locale:
> >> 
> >> $ locale
> >> 
> >> To set a locale:
> >> 
> >> # localectl set-locale <your_locale>
> >> 
> >> For a list of available locales:
> >> 
> >> $ localectl list-locales
> >> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion. In fact, something similar is what I use as 
> > workaround into the browsing VMs.
> > 
> > The drawback is that I have to set the correct timezone for each VM upon 
> > booting, each time, as the setting will be overriden at next boot by the
> > init script.
> > 
> > Regards, ///Pablo
> > 
> 
> Two options:
> 
> 1. Change the locale in the TemplateVM instead of the AppVM so that the
> overriding value is the desired one.

There is no difference setting it at the TemplateVM, as it is also overridden 
by the script there.

> 2. Add the command to change to the desired locale to /rw/config/rc.local (in
> the AppVM), then make that file executable (chmod +x). Every command in that
> file is executed as root each time the AppVM is started.

Thanks Andrew!

This works, but still makes you reset the timezone on each TemplateVM when 
traveling. Not a big deal. I will keep trying to find the root cause of this, 
albeit to understand the mechanics behind the scenes.

Regards,
///Pablo

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