emonGLCD Time stamp wrong

chris_cronin · 5 April 2019 17:06

Both my local emoncms & emoncms.org graphs show the correct time at the latest daily data plot (@ 17:57) but the emonGLCD shows 16:57. I set the time zone to Europe/London (GMT +1:00) from UTC

borpin · 5 April 2019 18:51

The browser based views, use the time zone set for the user.

I’m not sure if the GLCD uses the underlying system/OS time. If you look at the administration page in the Server section, I think the time there is the underlying system/OS time.

Is that correct?

chris_cronin · 6 April 2019 11:54

I thought the emonGLCD got the time from the internet but I don’t know which time zone it uses.
I’ve tried using UTC & Europe/London +1:00 but the same time appears on the GLCD. All clocks on my charts & PC show the correct time.
I even tried changing the time in ‘My profile’ to Europe/Gibraltar +2:00 with no change to the GLCD time so it appears the the time adjustment option there doesn’t work

Robert.Wall · 6 April 2019 11:57

It does, but indirectly, via the “base”, which in your case is the emonPi. So somewhere in the emonPi, the wrong time is being picked up and sent to the GLCD.

borpin · 6 April 2019 11:58

As I said, the charts etc use the timezone set in your user account / browser.

I suspect the GLCD uses the system /OS time which is not set by your profile.

You can copy the server info via the button in the admin page and then paste it here (no further formatting required).

[edit] I recently found that the timezone in my EmonPi was not set correctly.

chris_cronin · 6 April 2019 12:52

How do I go about changing it in emonpi?

Which OS is this?

borpin · 7 April 2019 09:36

Can you do this?

chris_cronin · 7 April 2019 13:24

I don’t understand this comment!

borpin · 7 April 2019 15:19

Under the settings menu, you will see administration

Can you please click on this button (on the same page)

then paste the clipboard into a reply (no further formatting).

chris_cronin · 7 April 2019 15:27

I don’t have an ‘adminstration’ option on either my emoncms.org or emoncms.local

local%20setup org%20setup

borpin · 7 April 2019 15:52

You wouldn’t I think on the emoncms.org one. On the EmonPi, log out and log back in again. The menu goes when your user session expires.

chris_cronin · 7 April 2019 17:07

Thanks for that; see attached server info. I can see the time is wrong but how do I correct it?

Server Information


Services
	emonhub	Active Running
	emoncms_mqtt	Active Running
	feedwriter	Active Running - sleep 60s
	service-runner	Active Running
	emonPiLCD	Active Exited
	redis-server	Active Running
	mosquitto	Active Running
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	Modules	Administration : App v1.2.1 : Backup v1.1.6 : EmonHub Config v1.1.0 : Dashboard v1.3.3 : Device v1.2.1 : EventProcesses : Feed : Graph v1.2.3 : Input : Postprocess v1.0.0 : CoreProcess : Schedule : Network Setup v1.0.0 : sync : Time : User : Visualisation : WiFi v1.3.1
	Git	URL: GitHub - emoncms/emoncms: Web-app for processing, logging and visualising energy, temperature and other environmental data : Branch: * stable : Describe: v9.5.1-1775-gd0db7a57
Server	OS	Linux 4.14.71-v7+
	Host	emonpi : emonpi : (192.168.0.52)
	Date	2019-04-07 17:05:03 UTC
	Uptime	17:05:03 up 11 days, 2:14, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
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	Host	127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
	Date	2019-04-07 17:05:03 (UTC 00:00‌)
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	Host	localhost:6379 (127.0.0.1)
	Size
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	Host	localhost:1883 (127.0.0.1)
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	SoC	Broadcom BCM2835
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	Release	emonSD-30Oct18
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Client Information


HTTP	Browser	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36
Screen	Resolution	1920 x 1080
Window	Size	2537 x 1263

borpin · 7 April 2019 18:53

You need to SSH into your EmonPi.

First you need to know which timezone you are in - it has to be the exact text List of tz database time zones - Wikipedia

This example is for my timezone *Europe/London

In your SSH session:

First, check the string you have is right e.g. (replacing europe/lon with a fragment of your timezone)

timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i europe/lon

to set the correct timezone (replace Europe/London)

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

And to check it is now correct

timedatectl status

Hopefully that will solve the problem.

chris_cronin · 7 April 2019 19:26

I’m no coder so I don’t know how to do this; can you walk me through it?

borpin · 7 April 2019 19:46

By the fact you have an emonGLCD, I am suspecting you just have the Raspberry Pi version rather than the EmonPi (the 2 can be seen here to confirm).

Can you confirm what your system is?

I also see you have a 2018 version of the SDCard, did you create this yourself by downloading the image or did you buy a ready made card from the Shop?

chris_cronin · 7 April 2019 19:50

I have the Raspberry Pi version (emonBase?).
The SD card came with the unit 2 months ago from the shop

borpin · 7 April 2019 19:53

Can you attach a keyboard and monitor to the EmonBase?

chris_cronin · 7 April 2019 19:55

OK, done

djh · 7 April 2019 19:58

FWIW, what you’re seeing is consistent with my shop-bought system from the back end of last year. i.e. the date is UTC.

borpin · 7 April 2019 19:59

So you should see what is called the command prompt. something like this.

If so type in the following and hit return

timedatectl status

beware, the case is important so TIMEDATE is different to timedate.

You should see something like this (not exactly the same).

      Local time: Sun 2019-04-07 20:58:34 BST
  Universal time: Sun 2019-04-07 19:58:34 UTC
        RTC time: n/a
       Time zone: Europe/London (BST, +0100)
 Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no