Re: ntpsec as server questions

[Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com>]

On 12/4/23 07:17, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:55:25AM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> > On 12/4/23 03:58, gene heskett wrote:
> > > I have this printer getting its time info from this machine's ntpsec but
> > > the chrony in the printer is ignoring /etc/timezone, stuck in PST or 4
> > > hours behind me when comparing the output of "date".
> > What does /etc/localtime say?
> >
> > For example on my raspberrypi 4
> >
> > ls -hal /etc/localtime
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov  1 18:21 /etc/localtime ->
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT
> >
> > cat /etc/timezone
> > America/New_York
> According to <https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges> the correct
> way to set the time zone in Debian is to run "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata"
> which will update both /etc/timezone *and* /etc/localtime.  Of course,
> since Gene's printer isn't running Debian, we can't accurately tell
> him what commands to run.
>
> But at the bare minimum, Gene should check:
>
>      ls -ld /etc/*time*
>
> If it turns out his printer has an /etc/localtime symlink pointing
> to the wrong time zone, then re-pointing it should help.
Which is why I posted the above.

Libc uses /etc/localtime so the printer is likely to use that

By doing ls -hal /etc/localtime will point that out

My research has shown that /etc/timezone is a debianism and was slated to be depreciated.


dpkg-reconfigure tzdata will not allow me to set the time zone to EST5EDT

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