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From: drewcassidy <drewcassidy@me.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:43:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ugh linux

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+title: Time-Zones and ntpd in Raspbian
+tags: Raspberry-pi linux
+---
+Setting the time zone in raspbian using `raspi-config` has strange results
+```
+Current default time zone: 'US/Pacific-New'
+Local time is now:      Mon Jan  1 08:02:07 PST 2018.
+Universal Time is now:  Mon Jan  1 16:02:07 UTC 2018.
+```
+
+setting the time zone to GMT-8 manually is even weirder
+```
+Current default time zone: 'Etc/GMT-8'
+Local time is now:      Tue Jan  2 00:02:46 +08 2018.
+Universal Time is now:  Mon Jan  1 16:02:46 UTC 2018.
+```
+
+The solution is to shut down ntpd while changing the time zone
+``` shell
+sudo /etc/init.d/ntp stop
+sudo raspi-config #set time zone
+sudo date -s "1 Jan 2018 00:09:00"
+sudo /etc/init.d/ntp start
+```
+
+And yes, I did spend New Years debugging time zones in Linux, among other things.