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Ansible set timezone on Ubuntu host
- name: Group by Distribution
hosts: all
tasks:
- group_by: key=${ansible_distribution}
- name: Set Time Zone
hosts: Ubuntu
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Set timezone variables
copy: content='America/Los_Angeles'
dest=/etc/timezone
owner=root
group=root
mode=0644
backup=yes
notify:
- update timezone
handlers:
- name: update timezone
command: dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
vagrant@us:~$ ll /etc/ | grep timezone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 May 16 06:27 timezone
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 May 16 06:22 timezone.2013-05-16@06:24~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 May 16 06:24 timezone.2013-05-16@06:27~
vagrant@us:~$ cat /etc/timezone
America/Los_Angeles
vagrant@us:~$ cat /etc/timezone.2013-05-16@06:24~
America/Los_Angeles
vagrant@us:~$ cat /etc/timezone.2013-05-16@06:27~
America/Los_Angeles
vagrant@us:~$
@jeremyheiler
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Thank you!

@AlexeyKhristov
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thanks a lot :)

@vovansystems
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thanks! but I have slightly modified your code to avoid of getting 'changed' status every run.
i've used static file with timezone copy: src=timezone instead of copy: content='America/Los_Angeles'

@dsociative
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Just use \n,

- name: Set timezone variables
  copy: content='Europe/Moscow\n'
        dest=/etc/timezone
        owner=root
        group=root
        mode=0644
        backup=yes
TASK: [test | Set timezone variables] ************************************** 
ok: [0.1.2.3]

@jeffwidman
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For checking current timezone and making this idempotent, just use the ansible_date_time.tz built-in fact:

- name: Set timezone to UTC
  when: ansible_date_time.tz != 'UTC'
  command: timedatectl set-timezone UTC

@tetherit
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Doesn't work on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) :( - any workaround?

EDIT: This works: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/1554806

@chusiang
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chusiang commented Jul 21, 2016

This working on Ubuntu 14.04 (managed node), thank you!

@thbar
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thbar commented Dec 13, 2016

@xanview this ansible galaxy role worked for me today on Xenial https://galaxy.ansible.com/adriagalin/timezone/

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