changing timezone with dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and debconf-set-selections
- by Carlos Campderrós
I want to set up a script that automatically changes the timezone on a machine (running ubuntu 11.10) and also sets the right values to the debconf database. I've tried the following, but it does not work (at the end, the current timezone remains unchanged, and if I run manually the dpkg-reconfigure tzdata command, the selected values are indeed the old ones):
#!/bin/sh -e
echo "tzdata tzdata/Areas select Europe" | debconf-set-selections
echo "tzdata tzdata/Zones/Europe select Madrid" | debconf-set-selections
echo "tzdata tzdata/Zones/America select " | debconf-set-selections
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
So, by now, I'm doing it messing with the files /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone directly, but I'd rather prefer the dpkg-reconfigure and debconf way.
