BST - GMT Time

1st Official Post

    Hi,

    Added a RTC to my PI2 but now matter how many times (No pun intended) I correct the time via SSH It displays +1 hour after a reboot.

    Check time zone and its Britian and UK time

    Help ??? is this a bug ???

    • Official Post

    Did you fully select the correct country and city (if necessary) in the International settings?
    Switch the Kodi GUI to "Expert' level for full menu options.

    Quote from Klojum


    Did you fully select the correct country and city (if necessary) in the International settings?
    Switch the Kodi GUI to "Expert' level for full menu options.

    Hi Yes .... It says British UK (from memory) and then grayed out it says London

    Doesn't seem to be any option though to set GMT or BST though ?

    yeah indeed, i also didnt find any way to select a specific timezone like UTC, GMT, BST, it looks like you can only select region :(

    And UK time is GMT+1 for the next 6 months or so.

    Edited once, last by kamaradski (May 9, 2017 at 6:44 AM).

    Hello!

    You can set a ntp server which offers the right time zone:

    serves:
    0.uk.pool.ntp.org
    1.uk.pool.ntp.org
    2.uk.pool.ntp.org
    3.uk.pool.ntp.org

    Btw that way you never have to care about time changes anymore.

    Regards
    Nicolas

    Edited once, last by Nicolas (May 9, 2017 at 9:15 AM).

    Nicolas, Sorry should have mentioned this is an offline PI.

    Klojum, glad its not just me ....

    Unless it could get the time from my Qnap NAS ? ... goolgle says ....

    QNAP Turbo NAS Software User Manual

    Maybe this is an option until Libreelec fix this.

    I assume I can add an local IP instead of publilc

    serves:
    0.uk.pool.ntp.org
    1.uk.pool.ntp.org
    2.uk.pool.ntp.org
    3.uk.pool.ntp.org

    Edited once, last by Silki (May 9, 2017 at 9:27 AM).

    Hi Nicolas,

    Srry i also tried this, but as expected it didnt add UTC / BST / GMT to the list of available time-zones. How did you have this in mind to work correctly ?

    You don't seem to understand how NTP works - NTP servers don't know about local time. The whole point is that they provide a standard time (UTC) and can be accessed from anywhere. Local time offset for timezones and optional daylight savings are added by the client.

    How time zones are handled with NTP?

    Quote from S80_UK

    You don't seem to understand how NTP works - NTP servers don't know about local time. The whole point is that they provide a standard time (UTC) and can be accessed from anywhere. Local time offset for timezones and optional daylight savings are added by the client.

    How time zones are handled with NTP?

    That said... And why does it change the time if I add a UK, US etc ntp instead of a german one?

    Regards
    Nicolas