[asterisk-users] wrong time retrieved from system command

[Kevin Keane]

Tilghman,

Could you remove your Reply-By header, please? Your deadline is two months in the past (and in any case, list postings really shouldn't have a reply deadline at all)

Here is your Reply-By header from your March 21 email:

Reply-By: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:20:00 -0600

Thanks!

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tilghman Lesher
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] wrong time retrieved from system command

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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Tilghman

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