Clonezilla keeps changing my system time
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How do I get clonezilla to stop changing my system time? I tried utc=no in my default file but it doesn't work.
Which version of Clonezilla live did you use? The latest stable one (2.4.7-8) should not do that. If it does, then it's a bug. Please provide more info so that we can fix it.
Thanks.
Steven
It is the latest, 2.4.7-8. I'm booting to PXE so I am only using filesystem.squashfs, initrd.img and vmlinuz. I have pxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.04. Is it possible that you can also start including the current pxelinux.0 with your downloads? It will make it much easier for users to set up Clonezilla for PXE. Thanks.
I confirm this issue after upgrading clonezilla live from 2.2.3-10-amd64 to 2.4.7-8-amd64.
The PCs run there RTC in local timezone (Windows installed) and after booting
clonezilla the RTC is set to UTC.
Investigations brings up the systemd-timesyncd service is started and synchronizing clock to
some debian ntp servers about 20 seconds after boot and the timezone of clonezilla is UTC then.
root@debian:~# timedatectl
Local time: Thu 2016-07-21 11:56:21 UTC
Universal time: Thu 2016-07-21 11:56:21 UTC
RTC time: Thu 2016-07-21 11:56:21
Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
The "timezone" (e.g. timezone=CET) boot parameter is ignored.
But even setting the timezone to CET and mark the RTC local (utc=no ocs_prerun="timedatectl set-timezone CET")
does not prevent the RTC from set to UTC.
Workaround: Disable systemd-timesyncd service
by appending to boot parameters: ocs_prerun="timedatectl set-ntp off"
in syslinux/syslinux.cfg
Thanks for the bug report. The systemd-timesyncd will be disabled in the next release.
Steven
I just tried the latest test release and this issue is now fixed. Thanks.
Cool. Thank for confirming that.
Steven