asterisk users - Mar 2011 - wrong time retrieved from system command

${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT+8,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}

I use the above command to get the system date and time

it returns 20110321-034329

but it is exactly 8 hours early than the system time when I type date in
linux terminal

Mon Mar 21 19:43:35 HKT 2011

I am looking for help.

CK
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what do you get when you do

${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}

?

Ish

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 19:45 +0800, asterisk asterisk
wrote:
> ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT+8,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}
> 
> I use the above command to get the system date and time
> 
> it returns 20110321-034329
> 
> but it is exactly 8 hours early than the system time when I type date
> in linux terminal
> 
> Mon Mar 21 19:43:35 HKT 2011
> 
> I am looking for help.
> 
> CK
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asterisk asterisk wrote:
> ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT+8,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}
>
> I use the above command to get the system date and time
I don't specify timezone when I'm working with EPOCH, what happens when 
you remove it?

Doug


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asterisk at ck-lee.com wrote:
> It is about the same.
>    
Then my guess is that the machine's timezone is incorrect.

Doug


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With gmt+8, the result is

-Mon Mar 21 13:47:59 2011

For linux server timezone I set it via webmin and /etc/localtime is my
timezone file i.e. HK at GMT+8


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:23:29PM +0800, asterisk at ck-lee.com wrote:
> > The timezone is correct. I have double checked.
>
> How did you check it? What did you check, specifically?
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 07:45:37PM +0800, asterisk asterisk
wrote:
> ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT+8,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}
> 
> I use the above command to get the system date and time
> 
> it returns 20110321-034329
> 
> but it is exactly 8 hours early than the system time when I type date in
> linux terminal
> 
> Mon Mar 21 19:43:35 HKT 2011
Have you tried "${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},Hongkong,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}" ?

$ date ; TZ=UTC date ; TZ=Hongkong date
Mon Mar 21 10:13:31 EDT 2011
Mon Mar 21 14:13:31 UTC 2011
Mon Mar 21 22:13:31 HKT 2011

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Barry

Thanks,

You give me the right answer.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Barry Miller
<asterisk-users at notanet.net>wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 07:45:37PM +0800, asterisk asterisk wrote:
> > ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT+8,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}
> >
> > I use the above command to get the system date and time
> >
> > it returns 20110321-034329
> >
> > but it is exactly 8 hours early than the system time when I type date
in
> > linux terminal
> >
> > Mon Mar 21 19:43:35 HKT 2011
>
> Have you tried "${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},Hongkong,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}" ?
>
> $ date ; TZ=UTC date ; TZ=Hongkong date
> Mon Mar 21 10:13:31 EDT 2011
> Mon Mar 21 14:13:31 UTC 2011
> Mon Mar 21 22:13:31 HKT 2011
>
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On Monday 21 March 2011 06:45:37 asterisk asterisk
wrote:
> ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},GMT+8,%G%m%d-%H%M%S)}
> 
> I use the above command to get the system date and time
> 
> it returns 20110321-034329
> 
> but it is exactly 8 hours early than the system time when I type date in
> linux terminal
> 
> Mon Mar 21 19:43:35 HKT 2011
> 
> I am looking for help.
Do you have an file (or symlink) in /usr/share/zoneinfo called
"GMT+8"?  I
certainly don't, and I'm not running anything different from the
standard
set of zone files.  If you don't have that entry, then the timezone code
will use UTC (i.e. no local differentiations).

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