Wrong time zone, right time?

[mith_y2k]

This is a funky issue and in fairness I'm not sure if I've had this forever. The other day I was checking the logs in my Orbi with Voxel and noticed the time was wrong. Recently I changed the NTP settings via the Web interface, I set the time zone to Pacific and the server to pool.ntp.org

When I noticed a time stamp that looked wrong in the logs I ran date and this is what I got:

root@RBR50:~# date
Wed Jun 10 16:27:53 GMT 2020

The time is actually right for my local time, but GMT is not my time zone. Is this normal? I also could not find the configuration file for the NTP server and time zone. Any pointers?

 

[RocketJSquirrel]

When I noticed a time stamp that looked wrong in the logs I ran date and this is what I got:

root@RBR50:~# date
Wed Jun 10 16:27:53 GMT 2020

The time is actually right for my local time, but GMT is not my time zone. Is this normal? I also could not find the configuration file for the NTP server and time zone. Any pointers?

I see something different on my Orbi RBR50. I am also in Pacific and the web GUI shows the correct time in my zone. But the shell shows time 7 hours ahead of Pacific. It was 10:30 AM when I ran this command.

root@RBR50:/# date
Mon Jun 15 17:29:56 UTC 2020

 

[R. Gerrits]

I see something different on my Orbi RBR50. I am also in Pacific and the web GUI shows the correct time in my zone. But the shell shows time 7 hours ahead of Pacific. It was 10:30 AM when I ran this command.

root@RBR50:/# date
Mon Jun 15 17:29:56 UTC 2020

17:29 UTC is 10:29 PST (with daylight savings) so everyting is as expected

 

[RocketJSquirrel]

17:29 UTC is 10:29 PST (with daylight savings) so everyting is as expected

I understand. What seems odd is that I see "UTC" but @mith_y2k sees "GMT" with a time mismatch. Maybe one of us needs a firmware update.

 

[R. Gerrits]

perhaps you are using entware?

I see GMT with the stock date and UTC with the entware date:

root@R7800:~$ /bin/date
Tue Jun 16 17:19:55 GMT 2020

root@R7800:~$ /opt/bin/date
Tue Jun 16 17:20:03 UTC 2020

 

[R. Gerrits]

timezone is stored in /etc/TZ

(but the strange thing is that for me that has GMT-0, which initially matched the timezone in the GUI, which I forgot to correct after the last factory reset.
But also after setting the GUI to the correct time zone, it still has GMT-0.)

 

[HELLO_wORLD]

To have Entware date on the right zone: https://github.com/Entware/Entware/wiki/Using-time-zones

For the internal date, it always shows GMT.