From 2a80d9e55299214a3f0b4f585767b4c81c9d5c7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Sample Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:04:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] system: Write the timezone to /etc/timezone. * gnu/system.scm (operating-system-etc-service): Write the operating system timezone to /etc/timezone. Fixes . --- gnu/system.scm | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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))))))