timezone - Configure timezone setting¶

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis ¶

This module configures the timezone setting, both of the system clock and of the hardware clock. If you want to set up the NTP, use service module.
It is recommended to restart crond after changing the timezone, otherwise the jobs may run at the wrong time.
Several different tools are used depending on the OS/Distribution involved. For Linux it can use timedatectl or edit /etc/sysconfig/clock or /etc/timezone and hwclock. On SmartOS, sm-set-timezone, for macOS, systemsetup, for BSD, /etc/localtime is modified.
As of version 2.3 support was added for SmartOS and BSDs.
As of version 2.4 support was added for macOS.
Windows, AIX and HPUX are not supported, please let us know if you find any other OS/distro in which this fails.

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
hwclock	Choices: UTC local	Whether the hardware clock is in UTC or in local timezone. Default is to keep current setting. Note that this option is recommended not to change and may fail to configure, especially on virtual environments such as AWS. At least one of name and hwclock are required. Only used on Linux. aliases: rtc
name		Name of the timezone for the system clock. Default is to keep current setting. At least one of name and hwclock are required.

Note

On SmartOS the sm-set-timezone utility (part of the smtools package) is required to set the zone timezone

- name: set timezone to Asia/Tokyo
  timezone:
    name: Asia/Tokyo

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key		Returned	Description
diff complex		success	The differences about the given arguments.
	after dict		The values after change
	before dict		The values before change

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