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Re: ntpsec as server questions




On 12/4/23 15:28, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/4/23 07:17, Greg Wooledge wrote:

ls -hal /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov  1 18:21 /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT

And using mc to edit that link fixed it, I am now getting the correct time from date, thank you a lot.

But maybe a bug against tzselect s/b filed, IMNSHO it should have fixed that. It did not.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.


For gene..................................................................

#!/usr/bin/dash
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#    Title: timezone.sh
#    Date: 2023-12-04
#    Version: 1.0
#    Author: pocket@columbus.rr.com
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
set -o errexit    # exit if error...insurance ;)
set -o nounset    # exit if variable not initialized
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
zone=EST5EDT
zoneinfo=/usr/share/zoneinfo
localtime=/etc/localtime
timezone=/etc/timezone
profile=/etc/profile.d
if [ -e "$zoneinfo"/"$zone" ];then
    ln -sf "$zoneinfo"/"$zone" "$localtime"
else
    printf "%s\n" "Invalid zone: $zoneinfo/$zone"
    exit 1
fi
printf "%s\n" "$zone" > "$timezone"
printf "%s\n" "TZ=$zone;export TZ" > "$profile"/timezone.sh
chmod +x "$profile"/timezone.sh
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

chmod +x timezone.sh

sudo ./timezone.sh


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