Script-based Date/Time/Locale/Timezone setting
Posted: Thu 14 May 2020, 20:02
When modern puppies boot they bring up a couple of splash screens that offer the user the opportunity to set a bunch of parameters such as Date / Time / Locale and Timezone etc
I would like to know if there are any ways to set these parameters via a script rather than manually.
Why?
My Timezone (Auckland NZ) is down towards the bottom of the dropdown menu and i have to scroll a long way to get there.
Often I am booting on laptops that have badly configured touchpads (or clickpads that have no rightclick or centreclick function) and navigating dopdown menus is tricky.
I never use a savefile so when I am testing various pups I have to set these parameters every time i boot - until I have set up personalisation scripts or a personal adrv or sfs.
I have a series of scripts set up that allow me to easily change backlight, screen intensity, clickpad setup etc etc but I am wondering if it is possible to set my Timezone via a single script.
Once I get this set up I will turn off the quicksetup screens in a remaster and just rely on the scripts to do my initial setup.
Does anyone know if the modern pups have similar Timezone setups that could be configured by script?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
I would like to know if there are any ways to set these parameters via a script rather than manually.
Why?
My Timezone (Auckland NZ) is down towards the bottom of the dropdown menu and i have to scroll a long way to get there.
Often I am booting on laptops that have badly configured touchpads (or clickpads that have no rightclick or centreclick function) and navigating dopdown menus is tricky.
I never use a savefile so when I am testing various pups I have to set these parameters every time i boot - until I have set up personalisation scripts or a personal adrv or sfs.
I have a series of scripts set up that allow me to easily change backlight, screen intensity, clickpad setup etc etc but I am wondering if it is possible to set my Timezone via a single script.
Once I get this set up I will turn off the quicksetup screens in a remaster and just rely on the scripts to do my initial setup.
Does anyone know if the modern pups have similar Timezone setups that could be configured by script?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.