Incorret time in bash-prompt and logs on XOA

Bytevenidos

Hello, the time looks correct when i run timedatectl. However, you can see that that the time in my bash prompt is not correct. This is in a different timezone. The logs are also an hour off. Is this a bug? I can't find a time setting inside XOA. How does the env variable get updated?

[14:21 18] xoa@xoa:~$ timedatectl
               Local time: Sat 2025-10-18 15:24:17 EDT
           Universal time: Sat 2025-10-18 19:24:17 UTC
                 RTC time: Sat 2025-10-18 19:24:17
                Time zone: US/Eastern (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
[14:24 18] xoa@xoa:~$

[14:24 18] xoa@xoa:~$ echo $TZ
EST
[14:24 18] xoa@xoa:~$

[14:24 18] xoa@xoa:~$ last reboot
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sat Oct 18 14:16   still running
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sat Oct 18 14:14 - 14:15  (00:01)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Fri Oct 17 20:24 - 08:55  (12:30)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Fri Oct 17 20:21 - 20:24  (00:03)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Fri Oct 17 20:12 - 20:20  (00:08)

Bytevenidos

@Danp Yup, that fixed the time and the logs also. Thanks!

[12:42 19] xoa@xoa:~$ timedatectl
               Local time: Sun 2025-10-19 12:42:55 EDT
           Universal time: Sun 2025-10-19 16:42:55 UTC
                 RTC time: Sun 2025-10-19 16:42:55
                Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
[12:42 19] xoa@xoa:~$ last reboot
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 12:42   still running
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 08:27 - 12:42  (04:15)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 08:18 - 08:26  (00:08)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sat Oct 18 15:16 - 08:17  (17:01)

olivierlambert

Hi,

Have you checked https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/xoa#timezone ?

Bytevenidos

@olivierlambert

I ran that tool and tried both the US/Eastern and America/New_York but I'm still getting a time zone that does not account for daylight savings time. I did reboot inbetween each different sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata region selection.

[07:22 19] xoa@xoa:timesyncd.conf.d$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'US/Eastern'
Local time is now:      Sun Oct 19 08:23:19 EDT 2025.
Universal Time is now:  Sun Oct 19 12:23:19 UTC 2025.

[07:24 19] xoa@xoa:timesyncd.conf.d$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now:      Sun Oct 19 08:25:59 EDT 2025.
Universal Time is now:  Sun Oct 19 12:25:59 UTC 2025.

[07:27 19] xoa@xoa:~$ date
Sun Oct 19 07:27:30 AM EST 2025
[07:27 19] xoa@xoa:~$ last reboot
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 07:27   still running
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 07:18 - 07:26  (00:08)

olivierlambert

Have you checked timesync? (the paragraph after in the doc)

Danp

The bash prompt may be displaying the incorrect time due to these lines in /etc/bash.bashrc --

# Default user timezone is EST
if [ -z "$TZ" ]
then
  export TZ=EST
fi

Are you getting the expected result if you comment out this section of code and then reboot?

Forza

@Danp said in Incorret time in bash-prompt and logs on XOA:

The bash prompt may be displaying the incorrect time due to these lines in /etc/bash.bashrc --
# Default user timezone is EST
if [ -z "$TZ" ]
then
  export TZ=EST
fi
Are you getting the expected result if you comment out this section of code and then reboot?

Had the same issue myself, and removing that helped.

olivierlambert

Interesting. Let me add @Team-DevOps so we might improve the bashrc

Bytevenidos

@Danp Yup, that fixed the time and the logs also. Thanks!

[12:42 19] xoa@xoa:~$ timedatectl
               Local time: Sun 2025-10-19 12:42:55 EDT
           Universal time: Sun 2025-10-19 16:42:55 UTC
                 RTC time: Sun 2025-10-19 16:42:55
                Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
[12:42 19] xoa@xoa:~$ last reboot
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 12:42   still running
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 08:27 - 12:42  (04:15)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sun Oct 19 08:18 - 08:26  (00:08)
reboot   system boot  6.1.0-40-amd64   Sat Oct 18 15:16 - 08:17  (17:01)