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datetime: Use timedatectl to read current timezone

Sunil Mohan Adapa requested to merge sunilmohan/freedombox:dont-use-etc-timezone into master

Closes: #2326 (closed).

There are plans to remove /etc/timezone from Debian (Debian bug: #822733). It has been removed temporarily and that caused failures in FreedomBox. Since we use systemd-timesyncd and timedatectl, use timedatectl to retrieve the currently set timezone value. This eliminates the need to read timezone at a lower level.

Tests:

  • Getting and setting the timezone works.

  • Removing /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime then visiting the Date & Time app works. After setting the timezone, /etc/localtime file is created as symlink.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa sunil@medhas.org

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