Questions tagged [timezone]
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Xfce: set time language to other than that of the system (interface)
I want o have English for my system interface and settings, but French for locale (region), including time (weekdays, months, which appear in conky etc).
But in Xfce the time language is set along ...
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Does the system need to be at the right hour in order to get a GPS fix
I am using an ARM device on which Debian is installed. A GPS chip is installed on the machine and I use it in my program.
That being said, it seems extremely, long, or sometimes impossible to even ...
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Linux: robust way to get Timezone in form Continent/City
I'm looking for a portable/robust way to obtain timezone of a Linux box (mainly different versions of Debian) in form of Continent/City, like Europe/Kiev.
Till now I did it using timedatectl status | ...
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2038 problem behaving differently in different time zone
I am working on 32 bit linux and i understand 2038 problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Anyhow , when i try to use date command to set time beyond 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038
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How to synchronize timezone in Docker containers
I've some issues to have similar timezone in all containers of a docker-compose stack.
I tried to add TZ=Europe/Paris as environment variable to containers, and also tried to use :
volumes:
-v /...
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Secure way to update Date & Time of a Linux Embedded Device
I have a Linux (4.9.171) machine running on ARM Cortex-A processor. The system has internet connection and talks to my server over SSL. At the first boot, I can configure the date and time to it. ...
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How does `at` know there will be a time change?
I happened to be twiddling around with at just yesterday at 2:40 AM. (Don't ask...) I tried scheduling events one minute in the future (as a test), and – it just didn't happen. The events were in the ...
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Timezone correct, UTC correct, time still wrong
I have an AWS EC2 server running Amazon Linux (like rhel fedora) which does not know how to tell time, or is somehow not accounting for Daylight Savings Time. This makes all of my timestamps off by 1 ...
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Why does `date` ignore TZ environment variable?
On Ubuntu 18.04, I have the following behavior of date:
$ date --version | head -n1
date (GNU coreutils) 8.28
$ date
Вт окт 8 13:18:18 MSK 2019
$ TZ=UTC date
Вт окт 8 10:18:23 UTC 2019
So far so ...
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How to fix NixOS localtime service?
Setting services.localtime.enable = true; should start a "simple daemon for keeping the system timezone up-to-date based on the current location.", but it doesn't:
Failed to get target of /etc/...
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How to restore timezone from RHEL 5.x to RHEL 7.x?
We have scripts to reinstall RHEL 5.x to RHEL 7.x and install our application, but I need to update timezone according to old one. So how to restore timezone from RHEL 5.x to RHEL 7.x using /etc/...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop - date and time synchronization issue
I did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my laptop a couple of days back. During installation, I chose the timezone to be my local time zone i.e., Kolkata, India (Indian Standard Time). However, ...
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How to configure remote machine to use local timezone on login?
I work on a remote Linux machine which is located in a timezone which is off by 9h from my local time. I spend most of my time working from the shell, dealing with files versions and logs. Because the ...
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How to correctly fake time?
In order to resolve a specific timezone related bug on a software project that I'm working on, I'm trying to replicate a change on the system's clock using timedatectl to check my software behavior.
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Get sunset and sunrise times from GNOME night-mode
GNOME has a night-mode feature that automatically makes the screen a bit more reddish after the sunset, till the sunrise.
Both sunset and sunrise times can be fetched automatically from - I assume - ...
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How to calculate a Time Zone from my server [duplicate]
My server runs on UCT time.
What is the command to check a specific time zone? i.e. America/New_York
And to be clear, I don't wish to update the servers time zone, I just want to know what it ...
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How do I wrap a timezone adjustment to the date command in a string?
I'm trying to output the date and time, in a different time zone, in a bash shell script. Following this question, I did this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
IL=":Asia/Jerusalem" date "+%a %b %d %R"
echo "...
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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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Linux: Set timezone offset that doesn't exist?
Is it possible on any Linux to force a timezone offset 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
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....
