Fixed #64. installation.set_timezone() already excisted since earlier versions of archinstall in the library section. The guided.py example simply never asked for a time-zone. There's still no NTP option, which I'll add in later. Mostly because there's a lot of settings one can do to a time-client configuration, and I'm not sure all users want the default time servers etc.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/installer.py b/archinstall/lib/installer.py
index 39e3447d..2604e77d 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/installer.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/installer.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import os, stat, time, shutil
+import os, stat, time, shutil, pathlib
 
 from .exceptions import *
 from .disk import *
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ class Installer():
 	def set_timezone(self, zone, *args, **kwargs):
 		if not len(zone): return True
 
-		o = b''.join(sys_command(f'/usr/bin/arch-chroot {self.mountpoint} ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/{zone} /etc/localtime'))
+		(pathlib.Path(self.mountpoint)/"etc"/"localtime").unlink(missing_ok=True)
+		sys_command(f'/usr/bin/arch-chroot {self.mountpoint} ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/{zone} /etc/localtime')
 		return True
 
 	def activate_ntp(self):
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py b/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
index ab2b19bc..6b3e5faa 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import getpass
+import getpass, pathlib
 from .exceptions import *
 from .profiles import Profile
 from .locale_helpers import search_keyboard_layout
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ def ask_for_additional_users(prompt='Any additional users to install (leave blan
 
 	return users, super_users
 
+def ask_for_a_timezone():
+	timezone = input('Enter a valid timezone (Example: Europe/Stockholm): ').strip()
+	if pathlib.Path(timezone).exists():
+		return timezone
+
 def ask_to_configure_network():
 	# Optionally configure one network interface.
 	#while 1: