Hi,

I am opening this ticket against the "systemd" component as it seems the systemd package provides an empty "/etc/localtime" file, but I am not sure the issue is really on systemd side, it's more a generic issue with the way CentOS 10 images are created.

We noticed a difference (one can consider it a regression) between CentOS 9 and 10. CentOS 9 OCI images used UTC time by default, while it seems for now CentOS 10 OCI images do use New York time by default:

rgeissler@ncerndobedev6097:~/wk> podman run -t -i --rm --pull=newer quay.io/centos/centos:stream10-development ls -la /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Nov  4 16:46 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York

rgeissler@ncerndobedev6097:~/wk> podman run -t -i --rm --pull=newer quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 ls -la /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 28 04:09 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC

I don't think this is expected, most likely CentOS 10 images should be configured with UTC time by default like CentOS 9 was.

Cheers,
Romain