Calculinux: set Eastern timezone at bring-up

The board has no notion of local time -- glibc defaults to UTC -- so
astimezone() calls across the UI rendered heard-ages and timestamps in
UTC instead of JP's Eastern time. Adds a setup step that tries
timedatectl + tzdata's opkg feed first, falling back to a POSIX TZ
rule (America/Toronto and America/Montreal share the same US/Canada
Eastern DST rule since 2007) written to /etc/environment and that user's
~/.profile when the feed is unreachable, as it currently is.

Verified live on the deployed Lyra: UTC 03:17 now reads EDT 23:17
correctly through both a login shell and /etc/environment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Sonnet 5 committed 2026-08-01 23:18:47 -04:00
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@@ -21,13 +21,16 @@
# until then, which is fatal for "heard" ordering, TTL, etc. A oneshot
# service waits for a real route, then steps the clock once (NTP client
# if the image has one, else an HTTPS Date-header fallback).
# 4. deploy user The `meshterm` login MeshTerm runs under (created if absent; no password is
# 4. timezone Eastern (America/Toronto, same rules as America/Montreal) via
# timedatectl if tzdata's opkg feed is reachable, else a POSIX TZ rule
# in /etc/environment -- glibc honours it with no zoneinfo database.
# 5. deploy user The `meshterm` login MeshTerm runs under (created if absent; no password is
# set here -- run `passwd meshterm` yourself).
# 5. clone Pull MeshTerm with the READ-ONLY GitHub deploy key over SSH.
# 6. venv + install A venv + `pip install -e .`. pip's C builds hit ENOSPC because /tmp
# 6. clone Pull MeshTerm with the READ-ONLY GitHub deploy key over SSH.
# 7. venv + install A venv + `pip install -e .`. pip's C builds hit ENOSPC because /tmp
# is a tiny RAM tmpfs, so TMPDIR is redirected to $HOME/tmp on /data.
# 7. PATH Put the venv's `meshterm` on meshterm's login PATH via ~/.profile.
# 8. console font Hand off to calculinux-console-font.sh (braille + node glyphs +
# 8. PATH Put the venv's `meshterm` on meshterm's login PATH via ~/.profile.
# 9. console font Hand off to calculinux-console-font.sh (braille + node glyphs +
# rounded frame corners + the list cursor the bare console can't draw).
#
# Two prerequisites this script cannot safely embed and will check for / guide you through:
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ runas() { su - "$DEPLOY_USER" -c "$1"; }
[ "$(id -u)" = 0 ] || die "run as root (installs packages, writes /etc, creates the user)"
# --- 1. opkg packages ------------------------------------------------------------------
log "1/7 system packages (opkg)"
log "1/9 system packages (opkg)"
if have opkg; then
opkg update >/dev/null 2>&1 || info "opkg update failed (no network yet?) -- continuing"
# git and kbd ship in the base image; the python pieces are what the stripped build drops.
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ fi
have python3 || die "python3 still missing after opkg (check the opkg feed / network)"
# --- 2. wi-fi boot-scan kick (rtl8xxxu race workaround) --------------------------------
log "2/8 wi-fi boot-scan kick"
log "2/9 wi-fi boot-scan kick"
# Optionally provision the iwd network so the kick has something known to join. Secrets
# come from the environment only -- nothing is written to disk from this repo.
@@ -154,7 +157,7 @@ systemctl enable wifi-kick.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || info "could not enable wif
info "installed /etc/wifi-kick.sh + wifi-kick.service (enabled)"
# --- 3. time sync at boot (no battery-backed RTC on this board) ------------------------
log "3/8 time sync at boot"
log "3/9 time sync at boot"
cat > /etc/time-sync.sh <<'TIMEEOF'
#!/bin/sh
@@ -223,8 +226,38 @@ systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable time-sync.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || info "could not enable time-sync.service"
info "installed /etc/time-sync.sh + time-sync.service (enabled)"
# --- 4. deploy user --------------------------------------------------------------------
log "4/8 deploy user '$DEPLOY_USER'"
# --- 4. timezone (America/Toronto -- Eastern, same rules as America/Montreal) ----------
log "4/9 timezone (Eastern)"
opkg install tzdata-americas tzdata-core >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
if [ -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto ]; then
if [ "$(timedatectl show -p Timezone --value 2>/dev/null)" != "America/Toronto" ]; then
timedatectl set-timezone America/Toronto && info "set via timedatectl (tzdata present)"
else
info "already America/Toronto (timedatectl)"
fi
else
# opkg.calculinux.org's feed has been observed fully empty (404 at the index, not just
# this package) -- no zoneinfo database reaches the device then. glibc still honours a
# POSIX TZ rule without one, so fall back to the exact US/Canada Eastern DST rule
# (2nd Sun Mar -> 1st Sun Nov) America/Toronto and America/Montreal have shared since 2007.
TZ_POSIX='EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0/2'
if grep -q "^TZ=$TZ_POSIX\$" /etc/environment 2>/dev/null; then
info "already set (TZ=$TZ_POSIX in /etc/environment, no tzdata)"
else
sed -i '/^TZ=/d' /etc/environment 2>/dev/null || true
printf 'TZ=%s\n' "$TZ_POSIX" >> /etc/environment
info "no tzdata (feed empty or offline) -- set TZ=$TZ_POSIX in /etc/environment"
fi
if runas "grep -q '^export TZ=' ~/.profile 2>/dev/null"; then
info "$DEPLOY_USER's ~/.profile already exports TZ"
else
runas "printf '\n# Eastern time (America/Toronto == America/Montreal); POSIX rule -- no tzdata feed\nexport TZ=$TZ_POSIX\n' >> ~/.profile"
info "added TZ export to $DEPLOY_USER's ~/.profile (belt-and-suspenders for non-PAM logins)"
fi
fi
# --- 5. deploy user --------------------------------------------------------------------
log "5/9 deploy user '$DEPLOY_USER'"
if id "$DEPLOY_USER" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
info "user exists"
else
@@ -245,7 +278,7 @@ for grp in input dialout video; do
done
# --- 5. clone MeshTerm (read-only deploy key over SSH) ---------------------------------
log "5/8 clone MeshTerm"
log "6/9 clone MeshTerm"
[ -f "$KEY_PATH" ] || die "deploy key not found at $KEY_PATH
place the READ-ONLY GitHub deploy key there first, e.g.:
install -d -m700 -o $DEPLOY_USER -g $DEPLOY_USER /home/$DEPLOY_USER/.ssh
@@ -272,7 +305,7 @@ else
fi
# --- 6. venv + editable install (TMPDIR off the RAM tmpfs) -----------------------------
log "6/8 python venv + install"
log "7/9 python venv + install"
if runas "test -x ~/MeshTerm/.venv/bin/python"; then
info "venv exists"
else
@@ -284,7 +317,7 @@ runas "mkdir -p ~/tmp && cd ~/MeshTerm && TMPDIR=\$HOME/tmp .venv/bin/pip instal
|| die "pip install failed"
# --- 7. PATH (login shells) ------------------------------------------------------------
log "7/8 login PATH"
log "8/9 login PATH"
PROFILE="/home/$DEPLOY_USER/.profile"
if [ -f "$PROFILE" ] && grep -q 'MeshTerm/.venv/bin' "$PROFILE"; then
info "already on PATH"
@@ -295,7 +328,7 @@ else
fi
# --- 8. console font -------------------------------------------------------------------
log "8/8 console font"
log "9/9 console font"
if [ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/calculinux-console-font.sh" ]; then
sh "$SCRIPT_DIR/calculinux-console-font.sh"
else