Has anyone else noticed this? I’ve set the timezone correctly in the Rasplex GUI (I even went as far as to set the NTP servers). There is no clock within the GUI to check whether the date/time is set correctly, but when I log into the terminal and run the date command, my timezone is incorrectly set as UTC. I can use date -s to set the date/time, but on reboot it goes back to UTC.
I’ve scoured the internet for a solution, but find nothing pertaining specifically to Rasplex. There is a lot of info about OpenElec having this issue, and I know RasPlex is built upon Openelec, but none of the fixes seem to cross over at all. For example, setting /storage/.config/autostart.sh doesn’t seem to do anything. And commands like ntpupdate are not recognized. Actually the whole file structure and commands seems completely different then Openelec.
I understand the main reason for the problem is the fact that the RPi does not have a RTC, and maybe adding one would fix the problem, but there must be another way around this.
Please keep in mind I’m very novice, but eager to learn. This issue is not impacting performance, but it’s something I noticed, and in the effort to learn, I’d like to fix it : )
Thanks for the reply, Ned! You seem to be helping a lot of people out on here. Thanks bud.
I checked and the option for Wait for Network in System Settings was highlighted. But the option below (can’t remember what it was called, but the timeout for waiting) was set to 10s. I bumped this up to 60s, rebooted, but the time was still incorrect and set to UTC.
I wonder if this is a global issue or is something actually setup incorrectly on my end?
Having re-read your post again I think you may be confused, UTC is not a timezone it is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time, see this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
^ YHou are correct. I was confused there. Thought my timezone was set at Greenwich Mean Time. But alas, I tried setting my time again using date -s; confirmed it registered; rebooted; and the time jumps ahead 1hr. All things point to me simply using the wrong timezone in the Rasplex GUI, but I’m positive I’ve choosing the correct location & timezone.
