PXE boot parameter timezone ignored

[Albert25]

I'm booting clonezilla-live-20160711-yakkety-amd64 through PXE, and setting the timezone parameter in the APPEND line, but the booted system comes up with UTC.

Is it possible to set the timezone without editing the content of filesystem.squashfs?

$ date
Sun Oct 16 12:12:03 UTC 2016

$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=cz20160711/live/vmlinuz initrd=cz20160711/live/initrd.img boot=live locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=ch utc=no timezone=Europe/Zurich ethdevice-timeout=60 fetch=tftp://192.168.44.10/cz20160711/live/filesystem.squashfs nolocales vga=791 union=overlay username=user hostname=yakkety config components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no ocs_repository="smb://XXX:YYY@192.168.44.11/diskimages/" splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1
And the pxe config:

LABEL Clonezilla_20160711
  MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live backups v.20160711
  TEXT HELP
    Boot Clonezilla Live (v. 20160711-yakkety-amd64)
    to perform a backup or a restore of the disks or
    partitions to/from 192.168.44.11/diskimages
  ENDTEXT
      KERNEL cz20160711/live/vmlinuz
      APPEND initrd=cz20160711/live/initrd.img boot=live locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=ch utc=no timezone=Europe/Zurich ethdevi
ce-timeout=60 fetch=tftp://192.168.44.10/cz20160711/live/filesystem.squashfs nolocales vga=791 union=overlay username=user hostname=ya
kkety config components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batc
h=no ocs_repository="smb://XXX:YYY@192.168.44.11/diskimages/" splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau
.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1
      IPAPPEND 2

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for reporting this.
Could you please give testing Clonezilla live >= 2.4.9-7 a try, too?
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
We will see if any difference between Debian and Ubuntu.
Thanks.

Steven

[Albert25]

I now had a chance to try the "testing" Debian version: 2.4.9-18.

Unfortunately, the problem remains. The timezone boot parameter is ignored, and the machine uses UTC. (It does set the correct time from FTP; it just ignores the timezone).

From syslog:

Nov  5 18:37:37 localhost kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 4.8.0-1-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.4.1 20161019 (Debian 5.4.1-3) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.8.5-1 (2016-10-28)
Nov  5 18:37:37 localhost kernel: [    0.000000] Command line: initrd=clonezilla-2.4.9-18/live/initrd.img boot=live keyboard-layouts=ch timezone=Europe/Zurich ethdevice-timeout=60 fetch=tftp://192.168.81.10/clonezilla-2.4.9-18/live/filesystem.squashfs ocs_repository="smb://XXX:YYY@192.168.81.18/backups/" locales= vga=791 union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla config components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 BOOTIF=01-18-66-da-33-c1-b0 BOOT_IMAGE=clonezilla-2.4.9-18/live/vmlinuz 

In the running system, /etc/timezone contains "Etc/UTC".

[Steven Shiau]

I have made some changes to live-config, so this issue should be fixed.
Please give Clonezilla live 2.5.0-3 a try:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Let us know the results.
Thanks.

Steven