Hello,
Timezone is defined in Cerbo interface but when I want to schedule charging on grid, only UTC time is considered. How to modify clock to be on my timezone (Pacific Noumea)
Thank you for your help
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How to change timezone in ssh console ?
You can do the following to get the date without modifying the rootfs, so it will continue to work after a firmware update.
root@ccgx:~# TZ=Pacific/Noumea date Sat Jul 31 18:53:47 +11 2021 root@ccgx:~# date Sat Jul 31 07:53:48 UTC 2021
Or you can use:
export TZ=Pacific/Noumea
, which will make it the default for this ssh login. You can add that to .profile in the home directory, so it will be set by default for every ssh login. (and that will survive a firmware update)
Excellent info.
Dealing with log timestamps in UTC has been a frustration for me and it wasn't clear if changing the root user's timezone would upset other parts of the system.
This should be added to the root access instructions.
Why? This is just standard unix behaviour, it is not even linux specific and has nothing to do venus at all. This is decades old...
The "why" is because the times used in Venus OS use their own time zone. It was not at all clear how changing the unix time zone would interact with "Venus time". I did not change the unix time zone because I was afraid the unix time zone offset would be added to the one set up in the Venus Time & Date menu.
Adding a note in the root access would assure everyone it's OK to change the unix time zone.
In addition, I can't say I knew how to make the unix timezone change.
Remove the symlink to the localtime file:
rm -rf /etc/localtime
Then make a new symlink to the timezone file that you want:
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Noumea /etc/localtime
Use date to verify that your timezone is correct, it'll probably say "+11"
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Thanks for your reply.
However, even with timezone defined, impossible to set "Scheduled charging" with local time. I have to specify UTC time.
