Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: tzdata question
From:    Dumas Walker
Date:    Mon Jul 21, 2025 11:14

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>   By: Dumas Walker to All on Tue Apr 01 2025 14:37:41

>  > I am running debian.  Sometime in the past month, when I received a kernel
>  > upgrade and also a tzdata upgrade, I noticed that the time was wrong on my
>  > system.

> Maybe have a look at man timedatectl and see if any applies?

Thanks.  I eventually got it to work without issue.  There were a couple of
tzdata updates real close together.  One machine that I had not kept as
up-to-date pulled them both down in one update sequence, installing one after
the other, and didn't have the issue. <shrugs>

Part of my issue was my confusion re: living in an areathat I think of as
being GMT-5.  For whatever reason, selecting "GMT-5" set it *ahead* of GMT
by 5 hours.  Selecting "GMT+5" got me behind 5 hours like I should be.

I will still check that man page out for future reference, if nothing else.

on edit:  I have a new friend in "timedatectl status".  :D  Thanks!


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