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

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

2018-07-29 17:21 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:55:39 , David Gálvez wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>
It's very strange, are you sure the ntpdate command is getting the
time from the server successfully at boot?