proper way to change network time/timezone

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eprueves eprueves eprueves at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 14:55:00 UTC 2017


thanks, i will take a look into it.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Alexander Chemeris <
alexander.chemeris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Mille,
>
> I made a bunch of fixes for time handling in SMS back in 2014, but
> those patches have never been merged master I think. If you want to
> rebase them onto the current master, they may help you (or may not -
> they have fixed a lot, but I don't remember about this issue
> specifically).
>
> The patches reside in the achemeris/sms_fixes branch of openbsc:
> https://cgit.osmocom.org/openbsc/log/?h=achemeris/sms_fixes
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Mille Fiore <eprueves at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello openbsc community!
> >
> > We are encountering the ff issue: When using basic phones, we have
> observed
> > that the timestamps on the SMS are in UTC, even if we changed the linux
> > system timezone to a different one. Also, if the basic phone will do an
> > auto-update of date and time from the network, it will use the time in
> UTC.
> >
> > Do you have suggestions on how to change the network timezone
> configuration
> > for the osmo-nitb? There is a timezone command mentioned in the osmo-nitb
> > vty reference manual (timezone <-19-19> (0|15|30|45), ex. timezone 8 0 ).
> >
> > If we put that config under the BTS level (in osmo-nitb.cfg), osmo-nitb
> will
> > complain that there is a config error. If we put that under the network
> > level, osmo-nitb does not complain, but it doesn't seem to work as
> expected.
> >
> > Let me know if addtl info is needed. Thank you in advance!
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander Chemeris.
> CTO/Founder, Fairwaves, Inc.
> https://fairwaves.co
>
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