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

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

2018-08-05 22:07 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
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> I rebooted into TOS but it doesn't load any ACCS so I cannot set the clock.
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> So I set the clock in Xboot but when I got back into Mint it was 1hr too early again.
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> There is only tzinit left so I ran it repeatedly. It puts the clock back 1 hr each time.
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> Thorsten said not to run it from bash, that may explain the odd behaviour.
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>
> bash-4.3# date
> Sun Aug  5 16:59:57 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -u
> Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 17:00:02 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 17:00:04 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -l
> Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 16:00:08 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 16:00:17 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -u
> Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 15:00:22 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 15:00:25 BST 2018
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> bash-4.3# /sbin/tzinit -l
> Current date and time: Sun Aug  5 14:00:37 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 14:00:40 BST 2018
>

Weird. I need time to investigate this. It should work, on my Falcon
is working fine, I get the correct time and the right timestamps for
files from the desktop or command lines tools with kernel set to UTC
mode.

As soon as I find something I'll report back.