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

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

2018-08-05 18:54 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
> 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
>

Can you comment/remove the line where TZ variable is set in mint.cnf
and try again?
Show us please the output of date, tzinit and ntpdate after the
variable is unset.