Snappy timezone

Question

I read the snappy config command, but I still can't change timezone. The example doesn't looks like a terminal command!

Can you help me to set my snappy timezone?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use the snappy command. The timezone is a property of the OS, which in Ubuntu Core is called ubuntu-core and this snappy part is managed by snappy itself.

To read the current configuration for a part just run

snappy config [snap part]

And to apply one run

snappy config [snap part] [config]

To particularly change the timezone (to America/Cordoba in this example)

CONFIG=/tmp/core_config

snappy config ubuntu-core > "$CONFIG"
sed -i 's/timezone: .*$/timezone: America/Cordoba/' > "$CONFIG"
sudo snappy config ubuntu-core "$CONFIG"

Take note that due to a bug in the snappy command itself, this can't be piped in one single statement which is why I show it in three lines.

Answer 2

the way it's done now is:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone <timezone>

you can get your timezone string for timedatectl with timedatectl:

timedatectl list-timezones

source: ogra's (contributor to Core) reply reply on the snapcraft forum.

Answer 3

sergiusens answer have few errors, example should look like this:

CONFIG=/tmp/core_config

snappy config ubuntu-core > "$CONFIG"
sed -i 's/timezone: .*$/timezone: America\/Cordoba/' "$CONFIG"
sudo snappy config ubuntu-core "$CONFIG"

Forward slash before "Cordoba" need to be escaped and do not use write symbol ">"