Re: [Freemint-discuss] Timezone and timestamp

[David G. <dga...@gm...>]

Hi Peter,

2018-03-26 15:32 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
>
> Myself and others have reported timezone issues especially with
> the change to summertime.
>
>
> Android has a bug that means files sent over samba have their
> timestamps set to the sysdate. So I use touch -t to reset the
> times based on the filename. I have hacked up a perl script to
> do this.
>
>
> I do the mp4 files individually:
>
> touch -t 201712101030 /tmp/20171210_103049.mp4
>
> but in Thing they are shown with a time of 1 hour ahead.
> I am using BST (GMT +1)
>
> In this example the file is shown as 11:30 when I have stamped it 10:30
>
>
>
> In bash the file time is correct:
>
> bash-4.3# ls -l /tmp/
> total 10460
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     10692187 Dec 10 10:30 20171210_103049.mp4
>
>

Is your hardware clock set to the localtime or UTC (GMT)?
I guess is UTC but to be sure.

How do you run tzinit in mint.cnf? Which option do you use?