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

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

On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:55:39 , David Gálvez wrote:
> 2018-07-29 14:23 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> The kernel is still in localtime mode. Did you edit the tzinit option
> from "-l" to "-u" in mint.cnf?
>

No, that was without any changes.

Changing it to -u and rebooting:

bash-4.3# tzinit
Current date and time: Sun Jul 29 15:18:25 2018
Time zone in use: BST
East of Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00:00
Kernel clock mode: UTC

bash-4.3# date
Sun Jul 29 15:18:32 BST 2018


It is currently 16:18 BST


Peter