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haridsv
Setting timezone
September 03, 2017 07:09AM
For setting timezone from CLI (unattended), I found that you need to update /etc/timezone and dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, something like this (from here: 

$ echo "Australia/Adelaide" | sudo tee /etc/timezone
Australia/Adelaide 
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

Current default time zone: 'Australia/Adelaide'
Local time is now:      Sat May  8 21:19:24 CST 2010.
Universal Time is now:  Sat May  8 11:49:24 UTC 2010.

When I do the same, it doesn't work: 

 
admin@pogoplug:~$ echo Asia/Calcutta | sudo tee /etc/timezone
Asia/Calcutta
admin@pogoplug:~$ cat /etc/timezone
Asia/Calcutta
admin@pogoplug:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata

Current default time zone: 'SystemV/PST8PDT'
Local time is now:      Sun Sep  3 05:08:23 PDT 2017.
Universal Time is now:  Sun Sep  3 12:08:23 UTC 2017.

admin@pogoplug:~$ cat /etc/timezone
SystemV/PST8PDT

The timezone simply gets reset. Anyone know how to get this working?
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bodhi
Re: Setting timezone
September 03, 2017 03:17PM
haridsv,

Did you set locale?

IIRC, I think you need set timezone as root.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2017 03:20PM by bodhi.
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haridsv
Re: Setting timezone
September 03, 2017 09:25PM
bodhi Wrote:
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> haridsv,
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> Did you set locale?
>
> IIRC, I think you need set timezone as root.

I didn't set locale, will look into it. I did use sudo where required.
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haridsv
Re: Setting timezone
September 05, 2017 12:50AM
Here is the additional step I needed to do before reconfiguring tzdata: 
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime
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