docs: document setting the time zone via Butane - #702
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The page only covered timedatectl, which has no effect during provisioning. Add the Butane storage.links snippet that symlinks /etc/localtime, the same mechanism timedatectl set-timezone uses at runtime, so users provisioning machines declaratively have a documented way to set the time zone at first boot. Signed-off-by: Akanksha Trehun <akankshatrehun@gmail.com>
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The page only covered timedatectl, which has no effect during provisioning. This adds the Butane storage.links snippet that symlinks /etc/localtime, the same mechanism timedatectl set-timezone uses at runtime, so users provisioning machines declaratively have a documented way to set the time zone at first boot.
How to use
Review the added snippet in content/docs/latest/setup/host-config/configuring-date-and-timezone.md.
Testing done
Built the site locally with hugo --minify and confirmed the page renders with no broken references. This is a documentation-only change; no live provisioning or filesystem testing was performed beyond that.
changelog/directory (user-facing change, bug fix, security fix, update)/bootand/usrsize, packages, list files for any missing binaries, kernel modules, config files, kernel modules, etc.Not applicable: this only changes documentation content, it does not touch build output or OS behavior.