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

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

On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:34:13 , Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...> wrote:
> On Sonntag, 5. August 2018 18:27:17 CEST Peter Slegg wrote:
> > What is TZ for ?
>
> TZ is for older libraries like the one from PureC that don't have a timezone
> database.
>
>
Thanks. I had assumed it was for tzinit.

I tried calling ntpdate before tzinit but it still shows GMT.

So from bash I tried various combinations.
The time is currently 17:50 BST but it only shows 16:50 or 15:50


Test with tzinit -u

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 16:51:27 BST 2018

bash-4.3# ntpdate pool.ntp.org
Looking for host pool.ntp.org and service ntp
host found : fluffykins.positive-internet.com
 5 Aug 16:51:32 ntpdate[205]: step time server 80.87.128.222 offset 3600.563846 sec

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 16:51:34 BST 2018

bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -u
Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 16:51:41 2018
Time zone in use: BST
East of Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00:00
Kernel clock mode: UTC

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 16:51:42 BST 2018



Test with tzinit -l

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 16:52:27 BST 2018

bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -l
Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 15:52:39 2018
Time zone in use: BST
East of Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00:00
Kernel clock mode: localtime

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 15:52:46 BST 2018

bash-4.3# ntpdate pool.ntp.org
Looking for host pool.ntp.org and service ntp
host found : time.rdg.uk.as44574.net
 5 Aug 16:52:52 ntpdate[212]: step time server 193.150.34.2 offset 7200.727898 sec

bash-4.3# date
Sun Aug  5 16:52:54 BST 2018



Peter