iwg
26-03-17, 18:22
Hi all, I thought I had already posted my query on wrong timezone when I noticed this issue and was going back to update it with a solution I found. I can't fin dthe original post so apologies if this is a duplicate.
I think it is a bug in build - see below.
I had been updating all my home devices after the change from GMT to BST this morning but my time zone in date display changed from GMT to "IST" which IS Indian Standard Time according to Google. But the time itself did not move forward by 5 hours. So I suspected a more annoying bug - that BRITISH summer time was being inaccurately displayed - this proved to be correct. See the cut/paste below for evidence and how to temporarily get the display corrected. Can this please be fixed in future releases?
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ls -l Dublin London
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3559 Feb 18 14:51 Dublin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3687 Feb 18 14:51 London
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 25 19:24 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Dublin
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# date
Sun Mar 26 18:03:22 IST 2017
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
ln: /etc/localtime: File exists
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# rm /etc/localtime
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 26 18:04 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# date
Sun Mar 26 18:04:33 BST 2017
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe#
Can I please get my /etc/localtime file correctly pointing me to London and thus BST timezone, not the foreign city Dublin. Thanks.
I think it is a bug in build - see below.
I had been updating all my home devices after the change from GMT to BST this morning but my time zone in date display changed from GMT to "IST" which IS Indian Standard Time according to Google. But the time itself did not move forward by 5 hours. So I suspected a more annoying bug - that BRITISH summer time was being inaccurately displayed - this proved to be correct. See the cut/paste below for evidence and how to temporarily get the display corrected. Can this please be fixed in future releases?
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ls -l Dublin London
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3559 Feb 18 14:51 Dublin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3687 Feb 18 14:51 London
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 25 19:24 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Dublin
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# date
Sun Mar 26 18:03:22 IST 2017
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
ln: /etc/localtime: File exists
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# rm /etc/localtime
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mar 26 18:04 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe# date
Sun Mar 26 18:04:33 BST 2017
root@vusolo2:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe#
Can I please get my /etc/localtime file correctly pointing me to London and thus BST timezone, not the foreign city Dublin. Thanks.