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Strange_Attractor
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 Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:52 pm Post subject: Timedatectl displays wrong time |
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I have tried
| Code: | | timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Stockholm |
(which is UTC +2h)
/etc/timezone is already a symlink to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Stockholm
/etc/localtime contains only the string "Europe/Stockholm"
Output from timedatectl is
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Local time: fre 2015-04-10 15:50:27 UTC
Universal time: fre 2015-04-10 15:50:27 UTC
RTC time: fre 2015-04-10 15:50:27
Time zone: Europe/Stockholm (UTC, +0000)
NTP enabled: no
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
DST active: n/a
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shows only time in UTC format. RTC is set to UTC time. How do I fix this? |
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russK
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | /etc/timezone is already a symlink to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Stockholm
/etc/localtime contains only the string "Europe/Stockholm" |
That sounds backwards. Read the 'man 5 localtime' man page.
I have the file /etc/timezone containing string "America/New_York", and the /etc/localtime is a soft link to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York. So, my 'date' command returns time in EDT.
Try swapping the two.
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Strange_Attractor
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks! I tried swapping the files, but "date" still shows time in UTC. |
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Strange_Attractor
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| BTW, I use KDE. I don't have this problem with Gnome 3 on my laptop. |
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russK
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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I would not have thought your desktop environment would matter, but you never know these days. I am on gnome 3.14 and there is a Date/Time settings dialog accessible from the settings panel, which allows manipulation of the timezone for the user. I would think one would want the date command working properly outside of the desktop environment before manipulating the timezone inside the desktop environment.
Sorry I don't use kde much.
Another thing to try, which seems a little like a hack, put 'export TZ=Europe/Stockholm' in either /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc. Open a new shell and try 'date' again. |
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Strange_Attractor
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| The only thing that works is setting the timezone to CET. Or alias date='TZ=CET date' in .bashrc. |
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Strange_Attractor
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Update: Does not work on Gnome 3 either. I'm confused. |
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ferrelas
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Have you tried switching from UTC to localtime? It's wrong(tm), but it could solve the issue. |
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