Re: [Jailkit-users] noob q. :)

[Olivier Sessink]

Snowman wrote:
> Hi,
> i just want to ask how to set timezone in jail. I googled for some
> solution, but i didnt find something related to this.
> What i did is I touched /etc/localtime with jk_cp -j jaildir
> /etc/localtime.
> 
> now on outside jail : outsidejail:/home/user# date
> Sun Apr  6 01:07:32 CEST 2008
> 
> and inside jail: address@hidden:~$ date
> Sat Apr  5 23:08:04 UTC 2008
> 
> problem is probably still in timezone. So anybody knows how to set it to
> CEST ?

next to setting the timezone you need the timezone data itself in the
jail too.

In Ubuntu these files are in the tzdata package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/all/tzdata/filelist

regards,
        Olivier