Questions tagged [timezone]
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How can I change time in Kali linux which should be synchronized with internet India standard +5:30 timezone? [closed]
I tried all commands:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Kolkata
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime
sudo apt-get install ntp
watch -n 1 "ntpq ...
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Debian - Restore a Timezone File [duplicate]
So, I just screwed up a timezone file on my Debian system because I pointed it as a link to /etc/localtime vs. pointing /etc/localtime to it. Specifically, /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Puerto_Rico.
I'...
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Time zone: Host. What does that mean?
I know that there is several ways to setup system timezone on CentOS host.
What I would like to know is the meaning of this Host timezone which seems to be set by default and is reported by ...
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Docker can not change timezone
why i can not change the timezone to CET or Europe/Berlin
[root@server.de ~]# docker run -ti --rm debian:stretch bash
root@b65a4b63c152:/# cat /etc/timezone
Etc/UTC
root@b65a4b63c152:/# echo 'Europe/...
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Daylight saving in Debian 9
I would like to know how to enable Daylight saving support for Debian 9 with LXDE. My timezone is set to Europe/Rome. However my clock is one hour ahead and - considering Daylight saving - it shouldn'...
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How do I set timezone to UTC-8
I need to set my timezone to UTC -8, I only see options to set to PST or GMT-8. Is there a way to make it show as UTC-8?
I am running RHEL6.
$ date
Sat Feb 23 01:41:41 UTC 2019
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I have three different timezones on my Debian Linux
I use Debian 9.5.1.
I used the dpkg-reconfigure tzdata command to set my timezone to Tehran.
Now I have three timezones in my Linux.
I execute the following three command together and look at logs:
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How to list timezones known to the system?
I would like to have a list of all the timezones in my system's zoneinfo database (note : system is a debian strecth linux)
The current solution I have is : list all paths under /usr/share/zoneinfo/...
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How to set half hour and 45-minute time zones without worrying about DST changes in Linux?
Currently I am setting time zone GMT+5 on my Linux CentOS 7 machine by linking /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-5.
I want to create a zone info file for example /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/...
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Identify current default time zone set in FreeBSD
I know sudo tzsetup will prompt me to change time zone settings on FreeBSD.
➥ How can I see the current time zone settings, without making changes?
I know date shows me current time. For example:
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RHEL GUI offers Automatic Time Zone Option. Is there a way to set that option from console?
As you can see the Automatic Time zone is off in GUI.
Is there a command to set it on?
Example: if Automatic Date and Time is selected to be off from GUI, it can be changed from console with:
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/etc/timezone on Amazon Linux
Usually /etc/timezone is a text file containing the timezone, at least that's how it works on most non-embedded linux distros. However, on Amazon Linux(4.14.72-68.55.amzn1.x86_64) it's actually an ...
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Updating Olson timezone database in a running system
Is it possible to update an Olson timezone database without stopping the current running systems?
I think that the renaming of folders and files of the or inside the zoneinfo folder can't accomplish ...
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Arch ARM set timezone
I have installed Arch Linux on my Raspberry Pi from rasparch-exton-1680mb-180402.zip, successfully updated and have set my Locale to en_AU.UTF-8 and this looks OK.
timedatectl continues to show Time ...
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How to fix the Brazilian daylight saving time (Summer Time) of 2018 in Olson database files?
The Brazilian Government has just issued a law that shifts the beginning of the Brazilian DST (Daylight Saving Time) locally called as Summer Time.
This new DST date will come into force in the next ...
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Times for Evolution calendar events broken after change to UTC as system time zone (from local time zone)
I changed /etc/localtime on my Debian Stretch system from local time to UTC, mainly because I want system processes to use UTC and only for presentation to use local time. For some reason, back when I ...
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Linux: Set timezone offset that doesn't exist?
Is it possible on any Linux to force a timezone offet that is outside the "valid" range -12 to +14?
I'm looking for a way to temporarily simulate a "local time" (for testing purposes) that might be ...
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How can I install the TZ database on an embedded Linux platform?
I have an embedded Linux device for which the stock operating system image does not include the TZ database files usually found in /usr/share/zoneinfo.
I wish to enhance the device in order to be ...
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system-wide timezone question -red hat enterprise 7
For my user account I explicitly export the TZ variable to be america/chicago in my .bash_profile file, so when I type: date, I get the date in CST. However I have not set the TZ variable for any ...
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What is /etc/timezone used for?
On my Manjaro linux box, I have a file /etc/timezone which contains:
Asia/Bangkok
Another Manjaro forum user also has the same file. That thread on the whole contains some prior art on this question....
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Trigger some action on system clock change?
I would like to have something occur - say, I would like to run a certain script - whenever the system clock is adjusted (hardware clock and/or offset from hardware clock, including the timezone). ...
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`timedatectl set-timezone` doesn't update `/etc/timezone`
I expected that timedatectl would update /etc/timezone when changing timezones, but no:
% sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Asia/Kuala_Lumpur'
% cat /etc/timezone
Asia/Bangkok
Is there a reason that it ...
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Get current timezone as `Region/City`
Unfortunately timedatectl set-timezone doesn't update /etc/timezone.
How do I get the current timezone as Region/City, eg, given:
% timedatectl | grep zone
Time zone: Asia/...
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How to change timezone in current shell session in Redhat
ls -lt shows time in PDT, I want to change it to Asia/Singapore in the current session. I tried set TZ=Asia/Singapore But it's showing the same time on ls -lt.
How to do it?
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How to force debian to use UTC
After manual installation with debootstrap my server always uses the local time. I've already tried to set the timezone to UTC, but it didn't worked.
The timezone was set with the following command:
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UNIX Epoch Time verification in MATLAB
I am testing MATLAB to ensure that I am correctly applying its functionality. An example from the a data source includes:
The current time in UNIX epoch seconds is: 1160967053
The current time in ...
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difference between timezone in ssh and in php?
why i have difference between timezone in ssh and php
$ TZ=Africa/Khartoum date
print :
Mon Apr 30 13:40:41 CAT 2018
but in php
date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Khartoum');
echo date('D M d Y ...
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Adjust cron to new timezone without a system restart
I've recently changed the timezone of my system.
timedatectl set-timezone [timezone]
I then restarted cron to adjust to the new timezone.
service cron reload
However, cron was still scheduling in ...
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PST to PDT changes on April 1st instead of March 11 at 2:00am?
I got the complaint that PST time zone is one hour ahead for Washington in my embedded device. I'm using tz utility to setup the timezone.
This is the Los Angeles time zone :
2018 Sun, Mar 11 at ...
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Convert timezone offset to integer
I am doing some timezone calculations in bash. I'm getting some unexpected values when converting the timezone offset hour output to an integer to do some additional calculations.
Partial script:
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Time drift and wrong timezone within NTP configuration
We have 2 VLANs, each VLAN has a server that provides DHCP, DNS and NTP to its corresponding VLAN. These 3 servers take time from a local NTP server. Here is the configuration of NTP client and ...
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Permanently adjusting RHEL 6 timezone remotely
We have a collection of cards running RHEL 6. We would like them to boot such that their timezones are Zulu (UTS, GMT, GMT-0). I have read and tried many of the suggestions out there that supposedly ...
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Need to get the Timezone details
I was in the process of getting the time zone details from the some of the machine in the infrastructure.
And some machines have timedatectl and getting the required details seems to be quite easy ...
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Hardware and system clock gets offset by roughly 7 minutes on each boot although locale and time zone are correct
On each boot into Arch, I see that the time is off by a few minutes. The RTC time is off (as far as I understood, it has "drifted".) and affects the hardware clock.
$ timedatectl status
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Does Debian automatically update Daylight Savings Time, even if there is no NTP server available?
I would like to know more about how DST works in Debian (and probably Debian-based distros).
Imagine the following: A computer running the newest version of debian is using the timezone Europe/Zurich....
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Can date format current time for GMT timezone? [duplicate]
When I run date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S" I receive 20171225203309 here in CET time zone.
Can I use date to obtain a the current time in the same format, but for timezone GMT?
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touch is creating files one hour behind the current time. How to set it with current time?
All ordinary users on my linux box have an issue. When they create a file using $ touch test.txt or using script and do ls -ali | grep test.txt I notice that the time of the file is one hour behind ...
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Timezone discrepancy between apache logs on two identical servers
I have cloned a server to sit behind a load balancer with the original. When looking through the apache access logs, the cloned server is in the wrong timezone. This seems like an easy thing to fix ...
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strange time zone abbreviation
If I execute this from console in my Centos 6 server
# date
I receive this
Wed Oct 11 05:11:00 -03 2017
anyone can explain me why date is returning -03 ( an UTC offsets )
instead of this
Tue ...
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Problem with Arch Linux installation (zoneinfo)
I'm installing Arch Linux thru a USB device.
I have already downloaded the files into the root directory and now I was trying to set up my timezone for the clock.
I went to cd /usr/share/zoneinfo and ...
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How to convert POSIX time to Olson timezone file?
I have localzone in POSIX format.
"PDT,M3.2.0/02:00,M11.1.0/02:00"
How to create my own timezone file with zic tool?
I took an example from man.
rule.infile contains:
Rule USA 1970 max ...
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What's the difference between localtime and timezone files?
I'm setting up a docker container and there are two places where the timezone are set:
/etc/localtime
/etc/timezone
Can anybody explain me what's the difference between them and what are both used ...
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Timezone changing automatically to 'Chicago' after rebooting CentOS 7
I recently switched from CentOS 6 to 7. I've noticed that every time I reboot my OS, it switches my timezone to Chicago (CDT) but I'm in EDT. It is easy enough to update the timezone with timedatectl ...
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Change timezone for logging
On a new server, I've changed timezone from UTC to my local timezone, Europe/London:
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
That gives me the desired time when, for example, I ...
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“export TZ=`date +%Z`” leads to confusing output of “date”
I recently noticed the following (strange) behavior:
user@pc:~$ date
Mi 21. Jun 12:03:10 CEST 2017
user@pc:~$ date +%Z
CEST
user@pc:~$ export TZ=`date +%Z`
user@pc:~$ date
Mi 21. Jun 10:03:30 ...
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Invalid time on FreeBSD
Problem
My FreeBSD is always 2 hours behind when I'm offline although my BIOS clock shows the UTC time and my time zone is set to CET in /etc/localtime.
I'd like FreeBSD to look at the clock in BIOS,...
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Difference between localtime and clock
/etc/localtime is a symlink.
/etc/sysconfig/clock is a config file.
Q: What is the difference between them? Each could store timezone setting.
Using SLES.
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Automatic time adjustment is vastly off (7 hours)
Desktop environment: XFCE, Distro: Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit, Theme: Greybird
I am vacationing in Paris and my time is completely wrong. This is what my Time and Date settings look like. However, as of ...
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Dynamic time zone in a running service
A unique service instance needs to change the timezone according to the data being processed. So, it can change the TZ environment variable for each data before its processing, and so on.
What is the ...
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Process start time with time zone
I'm trying to identify if a file is created after starting the process or not. I'm getting the process start time using command ps -f -p PID -o lstart=. This gives me a result such as Fri May 5 09:15:...
