June 17, 201412 yr I'm trying to sort out the timezone on my unraid server. Currently the timezone is set to UTC which in the UK is an hour out. Where do I download these custom timezone files from to implement a daylight saving timezone that will switch between GMT and BST as required
June 19, 201412 yr Simon just add uk. to the front of the default time server in NTP Server 1 so it reads "uk.pool.ntp.org", set the use NTP to yes, and set the time zone to london etc. The default pool.ntp.org is most probably set for the USA.
June 23, 201412 yr Author OK Still No Good. I'm confused as there is lots of old UNRAID 4.x out there i can see timezone info in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London, which is the file I appear to need. I can cp this to usr/etc/localtime, when I do this my timezone shifts from UTC to BST - Hooray But the clock is still an hour out Boo :-(. What have i missed. console output below Linux 3.9.11p-unRAID. root@Tower:~# clock Mon 23 Jun 2014 12:17:27 PM UTC -0.586833 seconds root@Tower:~# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime root@Tower:~# root@Tower:~# clock Mon 23 Jun 2014 12:18:55 PM BST -0.662767 seconds root@Tower:~# Ident.cfg file NAME="Tower" COMMENT="Simons Media Server" SECURITY="user" WORKGROUP="WORKGROUP" DOMAIN="" DOMAIN_SHORT="" localMaster="yes" DOMAIN_LOGIN="Administrator" DOMAIN_PASSWD="" timeZone="Europe/London" USE_NTP="yes" NTP_SERVER1="uk.pool.ntp.org" NTP_SERVER2="" NTP_SERVER3="" SYS_MODEL="" SYS_SLOTS=""
June 23, 201412 yr Okay Simon so your in the UK, using Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London. Correct. If your timezone is still out then its not connecting to the uk.pool.ntp.org server. Are you using unRAID 5.05? I had this problem at first because I have a static IP for my server and had not entered any DNS settings in the Network settings so my Server was not connecting to the internet, If you using DHCP then you should be able to just leave the DNS settings as obtain automatically.
June 23, 201412 yr Author Still not good have ip configured as you can see. still on UTC even though cp command in go script. after manually running cp command timezone changes but actual time does not root@Tower:~# clock Mon 23 Jun 2014 03:33:50 PM UTC -0.278322 seconds root@Tower:~# root@Tower:~# root@Tower:~# ping uk.ntp.pool.org PING uk.ntp.pool.org (64.99.80.30) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from url.hover.com (64.99.80.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=242 time=93.2 ms 64 bytes from url.hover.com (64.99.80.30): icmp_req=2 ttl=242 time=93.0 ms ^C --- uk.ntp.pool.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.014/93.123/93.232/0.109 ms root@Tower:~# ping ntp.pool.org PING ntp.pool.org (64.99.80.30) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from url.hover.com (64.99.80.30): icmp_req=1 ttl=242 time=92.9 ms ^C --- ntp.pool.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 1 received, 50% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 92.977/92.977/92.977/0.000 ms root@Tower:~# root@Tower:~# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime root@Tower:~# root@Tower:~# clock Mon 23 Jun 2014 03:38:39 PM BST -0.883677 seconds root@Tower:~# network.cfg # Generated settings: USE_DHCP="no" IPADDR="192.168.1.75" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY="192.168.1.254" DHCP_KEEPRESOLV="no" DNS_SERVER1="192.168.1.254" DNS_SERVER2="" DNS_SERVER3="" MTU=9000
June 23, 201412 yr Simon take a look at this link for the issues I was having. You need to ping from command line to check its seeing the internet. I notice your DNS setting is the same as the login address for your router and I don't know if this is correct. See Post 909. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30939.900 Although from looking at your log it seems to be getting information. Im running V5.05 as its the latest stable and anything before this and you should really consider updating to take full advantage of any previous bug fixes.
June 23, 201412 yr Author OK i can see the internet eg ping www.google.com the BT router only really does dns passthrough as I discovered so I was considering making the unraid box a dns/dhcp server. Haven't done this yet. All other machines have the dns set to this and work fine. I'm still confused I still have to run the cp command manually, when unraid boots timezone is UTC. Do I have to set timezone to Custom to use Daylight Saving or is this old unraid 4.x behaiviour. Have upgraded from 5.04 to 5.05, I hadn't bothered before as there looked to be nothing worth having apart from a timezone bug in brisbane
June 23, 201412 yr Author OMG clock -u specifies clock is set to UTC!! This fixes it. going for a reboot now
June 23, 201412 yr As you are using a UK NTP this should take the daylight savings into account when it sets your time and date. So really the upgrade from 5.04 to 5.05 has sorted out your issue, although not for users in Brisbane from what I have read on the forums. I set my clock from the unRAID WebGui, although Im using Dynamix WebGui now as its so much better and I love it in the Black colour.
June 23, 201412 yr Author OK will reset the timeserver to uk.ntp.pool.org, but this resolved to the same IP as ntp.pool.org earlier
June 23, 201412 yr ntp.pool.org and the London timezone gave me the time 1 hour out, as soon as I entered the uk.ntp.pool.org in the WebGui and hit apply it updated to the correct time and is still working fine as of 10 seconds ago. At least Im spending more time sitting on my backside asking questions on the Forum about using unRAID as opposed to doing running backwards and forwards to my laptop KVM to sort out WHS updates and bug fixing Transparent RAID. I just seem to have much more faith in unRAID than my previous RAID software, lets hope they release a V5.06 with built in APCUPS, Trash can for clumsy SMB users like me who hit the wrong button due to poor eyesight and cheap glasses and nice WebGui like Dynamix or hope that if not V6 doesn't overload my server with to much stuff I don't need.
June 23, 201412 yr Author Sorry to burst your bubble but the upgrade didn't fix it as you can see after a reboot I appear to need to issue a clock -u to get daylight saving applied. root@Tower:~# root@Tower:~# clock Mon 23 Jun 2014 05:37:37 PM BST -0.407240 seconds root@Tower:~# clock -u Mon 23 Jun 2014 06:38:04 PM BST -0.104710 seconds root@Tower:~#
June 23, 201412 yr You are in the UK are you not ?? My clock is reading: Mon Jun 23 18:48:47 2014 BST Have you tried logging into the WebGui and looking in the settings there it looks like your running from command line all the time.
June 23, 201412 yr Author Oh man how thick am I. I wasn't setting this at all in the web gui. it still utc!!!!!! going for another reboot facepalm
June 23, 201412 yr Looks like I was typing at the same time as you realised. See my post before your last one.
June 23, 201412 yr Author OK Breathtaking levels of stupidity later everything is good. all the unnecessary clock commands removed fro go script All good thankyou for your help
June 23, 201412 yr My pleasure, many users on this forum have helped me and as a community forum Im just trying to do the same.
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