Add timezone-ii cookbook to set timezone to UTC

cookbooks/timezone-ii/recipes/debian.rb

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+#
+# Cookbook Name:: timezone-ii
+# Recipe:: debian
+#
+# Copyright 2010, James Harton <james@sociable.co.nz>
+# Copyright 2013, Lawrence Leonard Gilbert <larry@L2G.to>
+#
+# Apache 2.0 License.
+#
+
+# Set timezone for Debian family:  Put the timezone string in plain text in
+# /etc/timezone and then re-run the tzdata configuration to pick it up.
+
+template "/etc/timezone" do
+  source "timezone.conf.erb"
+  owner 'root'
+  group 'root'
+  mode 0644
+  notifies :run, 'bash[dpkg-reconfigure tzdata]'
+end
+
+bash 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' do
+  user 'root'
+  code "/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata"
+  action :nothing
+end
+
+# vim:ts=2:sw=2:

cookbooks/timezone-ii/recipes/default.rb

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+#
+# Cookbook Name:: timezone-ii
+# Recipe:: default
+#
+# Copyright 2010, James Harton <james@sociable.co.nz>
+# Copyright 2013, Lawrence Leonard Gilbert <larry@L2G.to>
+#
+# Apache 2.0 License.
+#
+
+# Make sure the tzdata database is installed. (Arthur David Olson, the computer
+# timekeeping field is forever in your debt.)
+package value_for_platform_family(
+  'gentoo'  => 'timezone-data',
+  'default' => 'tzdata'
+)
+
+case node.platform_family
+when 'debian', 'fedora'
+  include_recipe "timezone-ii::#{node.platform_family}"
+
+else
+  if node.os == "linux"
+    # Load the generic Linux recipe if there's no better known way to change the
+    # timezone.  Log a warning (unless this is known to be the best way on a
+    # particular platform).
+    message = "Linux platform '#{node.platform}' is unknown to this recipe; " +
+              "using generic Linux method"
+    log message do
+      level :warn
+      not_if { %w( centos gentoo rhel ).include? node.platform_family }
+    end
+
+    include_recipe 'timezone-ii::linux-generic'
+
+  else
+    message = "Don't know how to configure timezone for " +
+              "'#{node.platform_family}'!"
+    log message do
+      level :error
+    end
+
+  end  # if/else node.os
+
+end  # case node.platform_family
+
+# vim:ts=2:sw=2:

cookbooks/timezone-ii/recipes/fedora.rb

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+#
+# Cookbook Name:: timezone-ii
+# Recipe:: fedora
+#
+# Copyright 2013, Lawrence Leonard Gilbert <larry@L2G.to>
+#
+# Apache 2.0 License.
+#
+
+# Set timezone for Fedora by using its timedatectl utility.
+
+bash 'timedatectl set-timezone' do
+  user 'root'
+  code "/usr/bin/timedatectl --no-ask-password set-timezone #{node.tz}"
+end
+
+# vim:ts=2:sw=2:

cookbooks/timezone-ii/recipes/linux-generic.rb

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+#
+# Cookbook Name:: timezone-ii
+# Recipe:: linux-generic
+#
+# Copyright 2013, Lawrence Leonard Gilbert <larry@L2G.to>
+#
+# Apache 2.0 License.
+#
+
+# Generic timezone-changing method for Linux that should work for any distro
+# without a platform-specific method.
+
+timezone_data_file = File.join(node.timezone.tzdata_dir, node.tz)
+localtime_path = node.timezone.localtime_path
+
+ruby_block "confirm timezone" do
+  block {
+    unless File.exist?(timezone_data_file)
+      raise "Can't find #{timezone_data_file}!"
+    end
+  }
+end
+
+if node.timezone.use_symlink
+  link localtime_path do
+    to timezone_data_file
+    owner 'root'
+    group 'root'
+    mode 0644
+  end
+
+else
+  file localtime_path do
+    content File.open(timezone_data_file, 'rb').read
+    owner 'root'
+    group 'root'
+    mode 0644
+    not_if {
+      File.symlink?(localtime_path) and
+        Chef::Log.error "You must remove symbolic link at #{localtime_path}" +
+                        " or set attribute ['timezone']['use_symlink']=true"
+    }
+  end
+end  # if/else node.timezone.use_symlink
+
+# vim:ts=2:sw=2: