Date/Time - Can someone explain to me whats going on?

[thestraycat]

Hi guys - Quick one.

 

I'm trying to troubleshoot some time issues in a container that i use (healthchecks.io) and to outrule any issues being passed to the container i'm looking for some confirmation on how the unraid time is displayed.

 

The time at the time of writing this was 13:32pm  

 

when i look in unraid in settings > date and time (UTC, via NTP.) it shows as 13:32pm

when i goto the console in unraid and type 'date' i get 13:32pm (which i assume is NTP adjusting my time for BST?)

when i goto the console in unraid and type 'date -u' i get 12:32pm (which i assume is forcing UTC time which shows as 12.32pm!)

 

Can someone explain to me why UTC looks different in both?

 

 

 

Lastly if i goto the unraid console and view time as per the timezone i see if i set London/Europe time displays as the correct BST time.

And when i force UTC timezone i see the older and incorrect time. (time was 13.55pm when i ran the command)

 

 

In the mean time i'm going to check the BIOS time. But i'm fully expecting this to be correct.

Edited April 11, 2023 by thestraycat
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