timezone

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
   • What timezone affects
   • Setup requirements
   • Beginning with timezone
4. Usage
5. Reference
6. Limitations
7. Development
   • TODO
   • Contributing

Overview

sets timezone

Module Description

sets timezone coping the actual timezone file to /etc/localtime

Setup

What timezone affects

• /etc/localtime
• manages timezone's package (usually it's called tzdata)

Setup Requirements

This module requires pluginsync enabled

Beginning with timezone

class { 'timezone':
  region   => 'Europe',
  locality => 'Andorra',
}

Usage

It just sets localtime to the appropriate timezone

Set location

class { 'timezone':
  region   => 'Europe',
  locality => 'Andorra',
}

Set UTC

class { 'timezone':
  timezonename => 'UTC',
}

Reference

timezone

• region: region to be used (default: Europe)
• locality: locality to be used (default: Andorra)
• timezonename: timezone to set, if it is defined, overrides region and locality
• manage_package: manage package, usually it's called tzdata (default: true)
• package_ensure: package's ensure (default: installed)

Limitations

should work anywhere

Development

We are pushing to have acceptance testing in place, so any new feature should have some test to check both presence and absence of any feature

TODO

Nothing so far

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request