Setting timezone offset properly with busybox

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia]

Try JST-9. The offset is "the value added to localtime to arrive at UTC",
which is the opposite than the "intuitive" meaning.

El viernes, 24 de julio de 2015, Juha Lumme <juha.lumme at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hi,
>
> I have created root fs with buildroot 2014.1, and it runs busybox version
> 1.22.1.
>
> I can't seem to understand how the timezone is meant to be set.
> NTP has set the system time appropriately to UTC:
> # date
> Fri Jul 24 02:03:16 UTC 2015
>
> In my case I would like to set Japan standard time, so I set the TZ
> variable (or write to /etc/TZ file) to "JST9" (My current interpretation of
>  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html
> ) and check time time
> # export TZ=JST9
> # date
> Thu Jul 23 17:03:24 JST 2015
>
> Now the time zone seems to have been set appropriately, but the time is 6
> hours in the future. The appropriate time should be the original "02:03:16"
> + 9 hours -> "11:03:16". Where do I get this additional offset ?
>
>
> Br,
> Juha
>
>

-- 
Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
guille.rodriguez at gmail.com
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