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

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

2018-08-08 21:40 GMT+02:00 Peter Slegg <p....@sc...>:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 08:59:59 , David Gálvez wrote:
>> Peter, where from and when did you get your tzinit?
>>
>
> I don't recall where it came from. Does this help ?
>
> tzinit - MiNTLib version 0.59.1
> Copyright (C) 1999 Guido Flohr <gu...@fr...>
> This program is free software, see the sources for copying conditions.
> There is no warranty, not even for merchantibility or fitness for a
> particular purpose.
>
> bash-4.3# ls -l /sbin/tzinit
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       108820 Jun  3  2010 /sbin/tzinit
>
>

It seems is from before the commit I pointed in a previous email, so
your issues are unrelated with what I'm seeing here.

While reading the tzinit sources I've seen that to set the kernel time
correctly we don't need to set /etc/localtime but
/usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime, my guess is that /etc/localtime is only
expected by some UNIX software. To set /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime
you need the zic command, may be that localtime is not correctly set.
You could try to run this command and see if something changes:

zic -l Europe/London -p Europe/London

If nothing changes I'd wait until we fix the issues we're hitting and
I'd reinstall an up to date mintlib.