Thread: "date" reports correct time zone and time; UI reports a time several hours off
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Old 07-10-2013, 06:56 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Synthead View Post
I pushed a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to my kindle's /var/local/system/tz file. It shows the time zone I want when I run "date" on it, but the Kindle's time (in the UI) is several hours off. What's wrong?

For the record, this Kindle is not registered to Amazon.
Set BOTH the system time and the hardware clock.
Both set to the same (GMT) time.

?? Is the "several hours off" happen to be your offset from TZ-0?
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