Where is timeconfig? Can't set timezone using CLI in F17.

[GregJo]

The documentation from this page:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...ezone-x86.html
states "To run the Time and Date Properties Tool as a text-based application, use the command timeconfig."

I can run the GUI version with system-config-date. However, I am unable to run timeconfig. Is the documentation wrong? What is the preferred way of setting the timezone from the commandline in F17?

[bob]

system-config-date is the correct command. Timeconfig (as a command) hasn't been around for many versions, in fact I can't remember it ever being used.

[PabloTwo]

You can specify your time zone using the date command. See "man date". Supposedly, you can also set the environment variable "TZ", though I'm not sure what the proper syntax for that is.

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[GregJo]

Thanks, Yellowman. Glad to know I can still read documentation, and it's the documentation that is at fault this time. I added myself as a listener to the referenced bug, as Leigh Scott already pointed out the problem is still in F17.

Using the tzselect command, I end up with the following:

You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line
        TZ='America/Denver'; export TZ
to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again.

Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you
can use the /bin/tzselect command in shell scripts:
America/Denver

However, that isn't "sticky"...as in, it's tied to the user, not the system.
Other threads such as this http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-l...e-tz-variable/ say to link /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain to /etc/localtime. Comments on the thread say to just copy the file, not symlink it. Confusing!

Anyway, I went ahead and copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain to /etc/localtime. Seems to have done the trick, and it survived a reboot (as I would have expected).

[marko]

I thought you also needed to put the timezone string into /etc/sysconfig/clock

That would be a system wide setting

[DBelton]

Just a quick look around, I am wondering what uses /etc/setuptool.d?

There is a /etc/setuptool.d/99timeconfig file and it's contents?

/etc/setuptool.d/99timeconfig:

/usr/sbin/timeconfig|Timezone configuration

However, there is no /usr/sbin/timeconfig file, so that config file points to nowhere.