By the way the time you were seeing was not "6 hours in the future", but 9
hours in the past (check the date)

El viernes, 24 de julio de 2015, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <
[email protected]> escribió:

> 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 <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> 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
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>
>


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