Add timezone-ii cookbook to set timezone to UTC

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: