Re: [Freemint-discuss] Fwd: Re: Timezone and timestamp

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

On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:19:10 , Peter Slegg <p....@sc...> wrote:
>
>
> 2018-07-29 11:23 GMT+02:00 David GÃílvez <dga...@gm...>:
> > Do you have the timezone data base installed?, see if you have the
> > file /etc/localtime in your system, if so you don't need to set the
> > system variable TZ in mint.cnf, but be aware that the file localtime
> > must be the correct one for you time zone. If not you can copy it from
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo to the /etc directory and rename it to
> > "localtime".
>
> >Sorry, possibly this is not the way to install your localtime file, my
> >memory failed me again. The "zic" command should be used instead, read
> >this:
> >https://github.com/freemint/mintlib/blob/master/tz/README.1st
>
> -
>
> The localtime file is a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/factory which
> contains:
>
> TZif                   
   
           
   1      Local time zone mus
> t be set--see zic manual page
>
>
>
> Peter
>


This looks wrong:
 
bash-4.3# tzinit
Current date and time: Sun Jul 29 12:18:04 2018
Time zone in use: BST
East of Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00:00
Kernel clock mode: localtime
bash-4.3# date
Sun Jul 29 12:18:07 BST 2018