This cookbook uses the tzdata package to update your system timezone.
It is only tested on Debian/Ubuntu, but would be easy to adapt and pull requests are welcome.
timezone[:timezone]- The name of the timezone to configure. Eg.America/New_York. This value will be used as your/etc/timezoneand the corresponding zoneinfo file will be symlinked to your/etc/localtime. Default:UTCtimezone[:zoneinfo_dir]- Directory containing the tree of zoneinfo files. Default:/usr/share/zoneinfo/, which is thetzdatapackage default.
Installs the tzdata package and updates the timezone using
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata if needed.