v17 LibreElec - Force system to use UTC
#1
How to force the system to use UTC ?

I need the time it displays on screen to be aligned with the time i use everywhere else.
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#2
Set the timezone in Kodi settings.
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#3
Thank nickr,

The timezone however only has locations, closest to UTC is UK/London, However Londen is using DaylightSavings, and is currently UTC+1.

I have not found any static timezones like GMT, UTC, BST in the list. Or am i overlooking something obvious here ?
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#4
I don't know anything about Libreelec.

But on every Linux I know, the available timezones are stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo. And there exits a file UTC. According to the Arch-Wiki you should link the zone file to /etc/localtime.

The same you can do with timedatectl set-timezone UTC.
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#5
LibreELEC is a bit different to other distros as /etc is read only.

TIMEZONE is kept in /storage/.cache/timezone
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#6
last time I looked, timedatectl wasn't available on LE
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#7
(2017-05-09, 21:58)nickr Wrote: LibreELEC is a bit different to other distros as /etc is read only.

TIMEZONE is kept in /storage/.cache/timezone

Thanks nickr, how can i use that info to do what i wanted ? Make kodi use the UTC time ?
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#8
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /storage/.cache/timezone
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