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[kota]

Hi there.

 

New here and would like to thank you for a great image.

 

I've got a Vu+ Solo2 and I've installed your latest image with no issues whatsoever but I do have a problema with the timezone setting showing one hour behind. Any way to fix this ?? I'm in the GMT zone in case it matters.

 

Cheers

[Kosh]

Daylight savings?

[dirocca]

change your settings in <<menu>><<settings>><<system>><<timezone>>

 

grtzPhilip

[kota]

change your settings in <<menu>><<settings>><<system>><<timezone>>

 

grtzPhilip

 

Done that. If I choose  the GMT option the clock stays one hour behind. If I choose GMT+1 the clock advances two hours. Go figure ...

[dirocca]

there are different settings with GMT+1, you have to use another one

 

grtzPhilip

[kota]

there are different settings with GMT+1, you have to use another one

 

grtzPhilip

 

You either not understanding the issue or maybe I'm not making myself clear. Bottom line is if I choose GMT zone, the clock does NOT show the right time. It shows one hour behind on every given moment. For instance now it's 14.55 local time and the clock on the box shows 13.55 even though the timezone is set to GMT on the box.

[dirocca]

i do understand but you are doing something wrong because you are the only one with this problem

first of all you have to choose GMT+1 but there are different ones(see screenshots)

 screenshot.jpg   40.88KB   31 downloads  screenshot1.jpg   38.72KB   32 downloads  screenshot2.jpg   40.74KB   25 downloads  screenshot3.jpg   41.18KB   28 downloads  screenshot4.jpg   45.24KB   22 downloads

 

did you tried one of these?

 

grtz Philip

 

[kota]

Got it. Makes no difference whatsoever. Either one hour behind or two in advance ....

 

Here's my timezone.xlm. Could you compare it with yours ??

 

Cheers

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•  timezone.xml   4.68KB   33 downloads

[WanWizard]

That file looks very wrong, there are no timezone names in the "zone" attributes.

 

This is mine:

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

<timezone>
        <zone name="(GMT-12:00) International Date Line West" zone="Pacific/Kwajalein" />
        <zone name="(GMT-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa" zone="Pacific/Midway" />
        <zone name="(GMT-10:00) Hawaii" zone="Pacific/Honolulu" />
        <zone name="(GMT-09:00) Alaska" zone="America/Anchorage" />
        <zone name="(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada), Tijuana" zone="America/Tijuana" />
        <zone name="(GMT-07:00) Arizona" zone="MST" />
        <zone name="(GMT-07:00) Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan" zone="MST7MDT" />
        <zone name="(GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US &amp; Canada) " zone="MST7MDT" />
        <zone name="(GMT-06:00) Central America" zone="CST6CDT" />
        <zone name="(GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada)" zone="CST6CDT" />
        <zone name="(GMT-06:00) Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey" zone="CST6CDT" />
        <zone name="(GMT-06:00) Saskatchewan" zone="Canada/Saskatchewan" />
        <zone name="(GMT-05:00) Bogota, Lima, Quito" zone="America/Bogota" />
        <zone name="(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (Us and Canada)" zone="EST5EDT" />
        <zone name="(GMT-05:00) Indiana (East)" zone="EST" />
        <zone name="(GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)" zone="Atlantic" />
        <zone name="(GMT-04:00) Caracas, La Paz" zone="America/Caracas" />
        <zone name="(GMT-04:00) Santiago" zone="America/Santiago" />
        <zone name="(GMT-04:00) Brazil, West" zone="Brazil/West" />
        <zone name="(GMT-04:00) Brazil, Acre" zone="Brazil/Acre" />
        <zone name="(GMT-03:30) Newfoundland" zone="Canada/Newfoundland" />
        <zone name="(GMT-03:00) Brazil, East" zone="Brazil/East" />
        <zone name="(GMT-03:00) Buenos Aires, Georgetown" zone="Brazil/West" />
        <zone name="(GMT-03:00) Greenland" zone="America/Danmarkshavn" />
        <zone name="(GMT-02:00) Mid-Atlantic" zone="America/Noronha" />
        <zone name="(GMT-02:00) Brazil, FNT" zone="Brazil/DeNoronha" />
        <zone name="(GMT-01:00) Azores" zone="Atlantic/Azores" />
        <zone name="(GMT-01:00) Cape Verde Is." zone="Atlantic/Cape_Verde" />
        <zone name="(GMT) Casablanca, Monrovia" zone="Africa/Casablanca" />
        <zone name="(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Lisbon, London" zone="Europe/Dublin" />
        <zone name="(GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Vienna" zone="CET" />
        <zone name="(GMT+01:00) Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Prague" zone="CET" />
        <zone name="(GMT+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris" zone="CET" />
        <zone name="(GMT+01:00) Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Zagreb" zone="CET" />
        <zone name="(GMT+01:00) West Central Africa" zone="Africat/Kinshasa" />
        <zone name="(GMT+02:00) Athens, Istanbul, Minsk" zone="Europe/Istanbul" />
        <zone name="(GMT+02:00) Bucharest" zone="Europe/Istanbul" />
        <zone name="(GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria" zone="Africa/Harare" />
        <zone name="(GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Sofia" zone="Europe/Istanbul" />
        <zone name="(GMT+02:00) Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius" zone="Europe/Istanbul" />
        <zone name="(GMT+02:00) Jerusalem" zone="Asia/Jerusalem" />
        <zone name="(GMT+03:00) Baghdad" zone="Asia/Baghdad" />
        <zone name="(GMT+03:00) Kuwait, Riyadh" zone="Asia/Riyadh" />
        <zone name="(GMT+03:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd" zone="Europe/Moscow" />
        <zone name="(GMT+03:00) Nairobi" zone="Africa/Nairobi" />
        <zone name="(GMT+03:30) Tehran" zone="Asia/Tehran" />
        <zone name="(GMT+04:00) Abu Dhabi, Muscat" zone="Asia/Muscat" />
        <zone name="(GMT+04:00) Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan" zone="Asia/Baku" />
        <zone name="(GMT+04:30) Kabul" zone="Asia/Kabul" />
        <zone name="(GMT+05:00) Ekaterinburg" zone="Asia/Omsk" />
        <zone name="(GMT+05:00) Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent" zone="Asia/Tashkent" />
        <zone name="(GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi" zone="Asia/Calcutta" />
        <zone name="(GMT+05:45) Kathmandu" zone="Asia/Katmandu" />
        <zone name="(GMT+06:00) Almaty, Novosibirsk" zone="Asia/Almaty" />
        <zone name="(GMT+06:00) Astana, Dhaka" zone="Asia/Dhaka" />
        <zone name="(GMT+06:00) Sri Jayawardenepura" zone="Asia/Colombo" />
        <zone name="(GMT+06:30) Rangoon" zone="Asia/Rangoon" />
        <zone name="(GMT+07:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta" zone="Asia/Bangkok" />
        <zone name="(GMT+07:00) Krasnoyarsk" zone="Asia/Krasnoyarsk" />
        <zone name="(GMT+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi" zone="Asia/Hong_Kong" />
        <zone name="(GMT+08:00) Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar" zone="Asia/Irkutsk" />
        <zone name="(GMT+08:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore" zone="Asia/Kuala_Lumpur" />
        <zone name="(GMT+08:00) Perth" zone="Australia/Perth" />
        <zone name="(GMT+08:00) Taipei" zone="Asia/Taipei" />
        <zone name="(GMT+09:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo" zone="Asia/Tokyo" />
        <zone name="(GMT+09:00) Seoul" zone="Asia/Seoul" />
        <zone name="(GMT+09:00) Yakutsk" zone="Asia/Yakutsk" />
        <zone name="(GMT+09:30) Adelaide" zone="Australia/Adelaide" />
        <zone name="(GMT+09:30) Darwin" zone="Australia/Darwin" />
        <zone name="(GMT+10:00) Brisbane" zone="Australia/Brisbane" />
        <zone name="(GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney" zone="Australia/Sydney" />
        <zone name="(GMT+10:00) Guam, Port Moresby" zone="Pacific/Guam" />
        <zone name="(GMT+10:00) Hobart" zone="Australia/Hobart" />
        <zone name="(GMT+10:00) Vladivostok" zone="Asia/Vladivostok" />
        <zone name="(GMT+11:00) Magadan, Solomon Is., New Caledonia" zone="Asia/Magadan" />
        <zone name="(GMT+11:30) Norfolk Island" zone="Pacific/Norfolk" />
        <zone name="(GMT+12:00) Auckland, Wellington" zone="Pacific/Auckland" />
        <zone name="(GMT+12:00) Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is." zone="Pacific/Fiji" />
        <zone name="(GMT+13:00) Nukualofa" zone="Pacific/Tongatapu" />
</timezone>

This is the standard file in an OpenPLi 3.0 image. Where did yours come from?

[40H3X]

To state the obvious........of course you are aware that there are 2 GMT settings one Casablana and a second GMT London as Casablanca has different daylight savings Casablanca  is 1 hour earlier that GMT London

[kota]

Not to worry. I'll reflash the box and take it from there.

 

Thanks anyway

[onan]

That file looks very wrong, there are no timezone names in the "zone" attributes.

 

This is mine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

<timezone>
Snipped

Thanks WanWizard

 

I know this is an old thread but I had the same or very similar problem and your .xml worked for me

 

and has really made my day

[Cofybreak]

Just report a bug in time zone.

I living in Bulgaria and set time zone to "Helsinki, Kyiv, Sofia".

After DST off (this night) clock is wrong(still on summer time).

I`m need to set time zone to "Jerusalem" for correct time.

[Cofybreak]

Found problem.

If looking in timezone.xml:

<zone name="(GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Sofia" zone="Europe/Istanbul" />

But zone "Europe/Istanbul" is wrong becаuse currently no DST in Turkey

[WanWizard]

It's probably easiest to manually change it to a better zone.

 

The entire timezone selection needs a complete overhaul, there are a lot more nuances with timezones than can be captured in an xml file.

 

edit: it doesn't seem to be this simple, it looks like the zoneinfo data installed on the box is far from complete, for Europe only Dublin, Istanbul and Moscow and CET as installed, so there isn't a lot of choice.

Edited by WanWizard, 29 October 2017 - 12:51.

[Cofybreak]

I`m changed time zone to Jerusalem and now clock is OK, but this is just workaround, not fix.

[WanWizard]

I've been looking into this. There are two issues:

• due to space restrictions (in old boxes), not all tzdata files are installed by default
• the timezone selection is hardcoded in an xml file, so it doesn't refect what is installed and or what is available.

The first issue can be solved, in your case, by:

opkg install tzdata-europe

After this, all European timezones, like Europe/Helsinki, Europe/Kiev and Europe/Sofia are available seperately.

 

Point to is more difficult to address, that needs a proper think.

[athoik]

I think we do not build OpenPLi for machines with small flash any more, so we need a way to "parse" installed timezones instead of having hardcoded ones.

Edited by athoik, 29 October 2017 - 14:19.

[WanWizard]

Yeah, brain is already in gear.

[doglover]

Webgrab++ uses this as timezone reference:

http://www.iana.org/timezones

and

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25001/ZoneInfo-tz-Database-Olson-Database-NET-API

However, as demonstrated in a subject on the EPG forum it is also not perfect.

 

Willy

Attached Files

•  Timezones.txt   20.59KB   9 downloads

Edited by doglover, 29 October 2017 - 16:09.