Time is behind by an hour even though TZ is correctly set

Asked Mar 19 '20 at 17:23

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I have an Ubuntu 18 server VM running in ESXI. The timezone is set correctly but the time is still behind by an hour.

root@devserver:~# timedatectl
                      Local time: Thu 2020-03-19 12:20:30 EST
                  Universal time: Thu 2020-03-19 17:20:30 UTC
                        RTC time: Thu 2020-03-19 17:20:30
                       Time zone: EST (EST, -0500)
       System clock synchronized: no
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: no

The time should be 13:21. Do I need to do make some kind of DST setting? It should be -0400, not 0500.

asked Mar 19 '20 at 17:23

john cs

You need to switch to EDT a.k.a EST5EDT instead of EST. – Kulfy Mar 19 '20 at 17:26
that did the trick thanks! if you put it in an answer i can mark it correct – john cs Mar 19 '20 at 18:07
I'm not sure if this deserves a separate answer since your questions seems more like a combination of Setting timezone from terminal and date to display the EDT time – Kulfy Mar 19 '20 at 18:21

Time is behind by an hour even though TZ is correctly set

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