[SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-16 Thread David Lyon
I'm trying to get the correct datestamp in a logfile for Raspberry-Pi for a server task. The task runs under supervisord with root permissions. I modified /root/.profile and added TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ However, in Python, the logging/task doesn't see dates with the correct timezone de

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Which distribution is it? The method to set system timezone depends on the answer to this question. And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. On 17 July 2014 10:51, David Lyon wrote: > I'm trying to get the correct

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 17/07/14 17:32, Amos Shapira wrote: > Which distribution is it? The method to set system timezone depends on the > answer to this question. > > And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the > correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. > > > > On 17 July 2014 10:51,

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread David Lyon
It's Raspbian for the distro on the Raspberry-Pi The problem is that supervisor is a python Distro package and it's wired really deeply into the bowels of the system. It's initialisation takes place way before any of the shell or rc.local startup. I sorted it out in the end, the command needed wa

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread jimd
> >I sorted it out in the end, the command needed was "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" >and that did something internally that made it work. > Maybe, or you could just copy /etc/localtime across from just about any other machine. Jim Donovan 0428-609-208 -- Sent from Mutt on a 512MB Raspberry Pi --