Allow setting of timezone #26

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2016-06-27T08:41:44+02:00

alanorth commented

2016-06-27 08:41:44 +02:00

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If I provision a server and I know it's in the Europe/Berlin timezone, it would be nice to be able to set a variable for that and have ansible set that timezone. On Ubuntu 16.04 and other systems that use systemd, this should use probably use timedatectl. Example:

# timedatectl set-timezone `Europe/Berlin`

If I provision a server and I know it's in the `Europe/Berlin` timezone, it would be nice to be able to set a variable for that and have ansible set that timezone. On Ubuntu 16.04 and other systems that use systemd, this should use probably use `timedatectl`. Example: ``` # timedatectl set-timezone `Europe/Berlin` ```

alanorth commented

2016-06-27 08:43:36 +02:00

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See someone's ansible command that probably works:

- name: Set TimeZone in /etc/localtime
  command: /usr/bin/timedatectl set-timezone America/Chicago

See someone's [ansible command that probably works](https://github.com/maxamillion/ansible-maxamillion.sh/blob/master/roles/common/tasks/timedatectl.yml): ``` - name: Set TimeZone in /etc/localtime command: /usr/bin/timedatectl set-timezone America/Chicago ```

alanorth commented

2016-06-27 10:53:30 +02:00

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Might want to look into this for Ubuntu 16.04, @oguya.

Brainiarc7 commented

2016-06-27 12:29:21 +02:00

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Nice, quite useful.

alanorth commented

2016-06-27 13:34:16 +02:00

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Actually, I'm not sure if "regular" Ubuntu 16.04 server installs start systemd's NTP client service by default, but Linode and Digital Ocean instances do. Maybe starting the service isn't necessary actually.

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Reference: alanorth/ansible-personal#26