debootstrapで作ったOSイメージを起動したら、当然だが、timezoneがセットされていなくて、時刻表記がUTCのままで9時間ほどズレていた。
hostname:~# date Tue Feb 19 07:43:59 UTC 2008
というわけで、timezoneをセットしておいた。Debianでは、tzconfigコマンドを使う。
hostname:~# tzconfig Your current time zone is set to Unknown Do you want to change that? [n]: y Please enter the number of the geographic area in which you live: 1) Africa 7) Australia 2) America 8) Europe 3) US time zones 9) Indian Ocean 4) Canada time zones 10) Pacific Ocean 5) Asia 11) Use System V style time zones 6) Atlantic Ocean 12) None of the above Then you will be shown a list of cities which represent the time zone in which they are located. You should choose a city in your time zone. Number: 5 Aden Almaty Amman Anadyr Aqtau Aqtobe Ashgabat Ashkhabad Baghdad Bahrain Baku Bangkok Beirut Bishkek Brunei Calcutta Choibalsan Chongqing Chungking Colombo Dacca Damascus Dhaka Dili Dubai Dushanbe Gaza Harbin Hong_Kong Hovd Irkutsk Istanbul Jakarta Jayapura Jerusalem Kabul Kamchatka Karachi Kashgar Katmandu Krasnoyarsk Kuala_Lumpur Kuching Kuwait Macao Macau Magadan Makassar Manila Muscat Nicosia Novosibirsk Omsk Oral Phnom_Penh Pontianak Pyongyang Qatar Qyzylorda Rangoon Riyadh Riyadh87 Riyadh88 Riyadh89 Saigon Sakhalin Samarkand Seoul Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tashkent Tbilisi Tehran Tel_Aviv Thimbu Thimphu Tokyo Ujung_Pandang Ulaanbaatar Ulan_Bator Urumqi Vientiane Vladivostok Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yerevan Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [] Tokyo Your default time zone is set to 'Asia/Tokyo'. Local time is now: Tue Feb 19 16:46:14 JST 2008. Universal Time is now: Tue Feb 19 07:46:14 UTC 2008.
この通り。
hostname:~# cat /etc/timezone Asia/Tokyo
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