I had trouble recently with a few xen etch instances built off the
typical etch xen packages. The problem was that the domUs all reported
time natively in UTC, despite my having used tzconfig to set it to my
local timezone (i'm not in UTC).
Within the domU, while i could cat /etc/timezone and it would show the
correct zone, doing a
cmp /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/my/time/zone indicated that
they were in fact different. and tools like `date` would report in UTC
if the TZ variable wasn't set.
` running dpkg-reconfigure tzdata did the proper thing, though, and
updated /etc/localtime. Had that failed, i would have just copied (or
linked, if /usr shared a partition with /) in the proper file to
/etc/localtime. given that tzconfig seems to have been removed from
lenny, i'm not sure where/how to report this problem, or if it's worth
it. It may be due to a weird interaction between tzconfig and xen's
default clock weirdnesses, too (the domU's inherit their clock from the
dom0 unless you deliberately detach them).