How to automatically sync VPN time zone to AppVM's sys time?

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For the best practice of anonymity, it’s good to sync AppVM’s system time zone to wherever the timezone of the VPN server is connected to. During Qubes 3.0 days, I remember Fedora VM used to sync its timezone automatically by simply turning on the Automatic Time Zone in the Settings but that perk was long gone after I believe some kind of new rpc policy on clocksync was introduced. Ever since then, I’ve been changing the sys timezone manually from the Settings.

I have basically two questions.

  1. Is there a way to automatically sync VPN server’s time zone in an AppVM?

  2. When an AppVM turns on, is there a way to start off with random time zone?

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Thats a very good point…

Will you set the VPN itself manually, or will it connect to a random country on boot?

I’ll look into this myself since I depend on VPNs combined with fingerprinting, so far I’ve found this that has been updated in 2020: GitHub - cdown/tzupdate: Set the system timezone based on IP geolocation