Re: [Freemint-discuss] Timezone and timestamp

[Peter S. <p....@sc...>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:01:10 , David Gálvez wrote:
> 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?
>


In mint.cnf I have the original (very old) settings commented out and the
updated one that was suggested when I originally mentioned the issue
about 8-10 years ago.

# Timezone (mandatory)
#~setenv TZ GMT-0BST,3.5.0,10.5.0
setenv TZ GB
exec    u:\sbin\tzinit -l


Somewhere, in the labyrinth of the start-up, ntpdate is called to set the clock.


Peter