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authorTimothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>2019-07-16 10:04:58 -0400
committerTimothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>2019-07-16 21:53:05 -0400
commit2a80d9e55299214a3f0b4f585767b4c81c9d5c7d (patch)
treed3500099c0be28288352092cff33c8cefa908187 /gnu
parent3d0b40ad7c369534f7f4c0c148b5b3b3ddc73542 (diff)
downloadguix-2a80d9e55299214a3f0b4f585767b4c81c9d5c7d.tar.gz
system: Write the timezone to /etc/timezone.
* gnu/system.scm (operating-system-etc-service): Write the operating
system timezone to /etc/timezone.

Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35746>.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
index 01be1243fe..485896ba0a 100644
--- a/gnu/system.scm
+++ b/gnu/system.scm
@@ -716,6 +716,10 @@ fi\n")))
        ;; to certain networks.  Some discussion at
        ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00037.html
        ("hostname" ,(plain-file "hostname" (operating-system-host-name os)))
+       ;; Some programs (e.g., GLib) look at /etc/timezone to find the
+       ;; name of the current timezone.  For details, see
+       ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00166.html
+       ("timezone" ,(plain-file "timezone" (operating-system-timezone os)))
        ("localtime" ,(file-append tzdata "/share/zoneinfo/"
                                   (operating-system-timezone os)))
        ("sudoers" ,(operating-system-sudoers-file os))))))