Package /etc/timezone as a symlink to /run/timezone, and write to that instead?

Ross

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 17:35, Arik Kleiman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> can't write it to /etc/localtime ... it's a read only system.
>
>
> There is an environment variable named TZ, when ever it is changed, local 
> time is changed as well.
>
> Is there a way (by script or cron job) to set the way system will update as 
> well?
>
> 10x,
> Arik
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:46 PM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 14:58, Arik Kleiman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't have option to add systemd.
>> >
>> > Added alrady tzdata and all time zone folders exist.
>> > The issue is that ntpdate returns time in UTC.
>> >
>> > I found a way to get local time zone (by using ip lookup). Now i looking 
>> > for a way to use it to update system time
>>
>> Just write a small tool to map the local timezone from the IP lookup
>> to a timezone name (such as Europe/London) and write it to
>> /etc/timezone. You could do that with a short ifup script.
>>
>> That said, for headless appliances working in UTC is absolutely fine,
>> and for user-facing devices it's perfectly acceptable to ask the user
>> what the timezone is, as your geo-IP lookup might be incorrect anyway.
>>
>> Ross
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