proper way to change network time/timezone

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Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo at gnumonks.org
Wed Aug 23 17:14:01 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 04:34:21PM +0800, Mille Fiore 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.
> 
> I think Keith has fixed this upstream:
> 
> http://git.osmocom.org/openbsc/commit/?id=b4962dcf115148834478744e35fe1a888eda915f

Sorry, actually it's this one for libosmocore:

http://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore/commit/?id=733810c656fa9ec50a4223b0c15070ba1fd758cf



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