The Timezone II cookbook contains recipes for installing the latest tzdata (a.k.a. IANA or Olson) timezone database and setting the timezone on your system. It is a fork of the timezone cookbook by James Harton.

Requirements

This cookbook is known to work with:

Amazon Linux
CentOS
Debian
Fedora
Gentoo
Ubuntu

It should work with any OS that uses the IANA/Olson timezone database and stores local timezone data in /etc/localtime (the only OS I know of that does not do this is MS Windows). However, some OSs not mentioned above have their own system utility for setting the timezone, and this may overwrite the changes made by this cookbook.

Attributes

Key	Type	Description	Default
`['tz']`	String	the timezone name as defined in tzdata	UTC
`['timezone']['tzdata_dir']`	String	the path to the root of the tzdata files; the default value is for most known distributions of Linux	/usr/share/zoneinfo
`['timezone']['localtime_path']`	String	the path to the file used by the kernel to read the local timezone's settings; the default works for Linux and other *ix variants	/etc/localtime
`['timezone']['use_symlink']`	Boolean	whether to use a symlink into the tzdata tree rather than make a copy of the appropriate timezone data file (linux-generic recipe only)	false

Usage

Set the "tz" attribute to your desired timezone and include the "timezone-ii" recipe in your node's run list:

{
  "name": "my_node",
  "tz": "Africa/Timbuktu",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[timezone-ii]"
  ]
}

The timezone-ii::default recipe will first install or upgrade the IANA/Olson timezone database package for your OS (timezone-data on Gentoo, tzdata on all others). Then it will call one of the following recipes according to your node's platform:

timezone-ii::debian
timezone-ii::fedora
timezone-ii::linux-generic

Contributing

Fork the repository on GitHub
Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
Write your change
If at all possible, write test-kitchen tests for your change and ensure they all pass
Submit a pull request using GitHub

License and Authors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.