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

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

On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 15:31:10 , Peter Slegg <p....@sc...> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:54:17 , Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...> wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 5. August 2018 16:47:23 CEST Peter Slegg wrote:
> > > I assume TZ GB should alter the time on the correct date ?
> >
> > tzinit does not care about the TZ environment variable. You have to copy or
> > link the correct file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/* to /etc/localtime
> >
> >
>
>
> The localtime file is a link
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 May  1  2016 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Factory
>
>
> Peter
>


I changed the link to use London but it is still shoiwng GMT time

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 15:43:02 BST 2018


What is TZ for ?

Peter