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

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

2018-08-05 19:53 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
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> It is currently 17:48 GMT, 18:48 BST
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> London is GMT. BST is 1hr East of GMT (GMT +1hr)
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> bash-4.3# ntpdate pool.ntp.org
> Looking for host pool.ntp.org and service ntp
> host found : babbage.betadome.net
>  5 Aug 17:48:40 ntpdate[160]: step time server 109.74.192.233 offset 3600.768161 sec
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> bash-4.3# date
> Sun Aug  5 17:48:42 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -u
> Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 17:48:59 2018
> Time zone in use: BST
> East of Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00:00
> Kernel clock mode: UTC
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> bash-4.3# date
> Sun Aug  5 17:49:01 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -l
> Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 16:49:05 2018
> Time zone in use: BST
> East of Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00:00
> Kernel clock mode: localtime
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> bash-4.3# date
> Sun Aug  5 16:49:08 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# ntpdate pool.ntp.org
> Looking for host pool.ntp.org and service ntp
> host found : time.netweaver.uk
>  5 Aug 17:49:18 ntpdate[166]: step time server 185.182.62.7 offset 7201.144011 sec
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> bash-4.3# date
> Sun Aug  5 17:49:22 BST 2018
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Very strange, I can't figure out the problem in your system, I need to
investigate this further. I want to see ntpdate sources because I
don't understand what it's doing.
For now I'd simplify things, I'd forget about ntp and I'd try to make
it work only with the hardware clock. I'd go into TOS and see what is
the time the hardware clock is ticking from there (I have the feeling
is set to GMT-1), I'd set it to UTC/GMT and I'd try again with MiNT,
I'd keep TZ unset and I'd start "tzinit -u" from mint.cnf.