can't write it to /etc/localtime ... it's a read only system.
There is an environment variable named TZ, when ever it is changed, local time is changed as well. Is there a way (by script or cron job) to set the way system will update as well? 10x, Arik On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 5:46 PM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 14:58, Arik Kleiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't have option to add systemd. > > > > Added alrady tzdata and all time zone folders exist. > > The issue is that ntpdate returns time in UTC. > > > > I found a way to get local time zone (by using ip lookup). Now i looking > for a way to use it to update system time > > Just write a small tool to map the local timezone from the IP lookup > to a timezone name (such as Europe/London) and write it to > /etc/timezone. You could do that with a short ifup script. > > That said, for headless appliances working in UTC is absolutely fine, > and for user-facing devices it's perfectly acceptable to ask the user > what the timezone is, as your geo-IP lookup might be incorrect anyway. > > Ross >
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