Re: date/time?
By: boxoskulz to All on Mon Mar 02 2026 04:25 am

Howdy,

my system date/time is correct, although i did change the timezone after i installed Mystic, but Mystic is showing (when i post a message) that the day is one day later and the time is off. Posting today on 03/01 shows 03/02 in the message date stamp. any ideas?

I'm going to guess you are off by a mulitiple of your UTC offset?

From memory, make sure /etc/localtime is linked to the correct timezone and then it should recognise your timezone and populate times appropriately for you and for others who read your messages.

Ii dont run mystic, so others might have a more authoritive answer... :)


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my system date/time is correct, although i did change the timezone after i installed Mystic, but Mystic is showing (when i post a message) that the day is one day later and the time is off. Posting today on 03/01 shows 03/02 in the message date stamp. any ideas?

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I'm going to guess you are off by a mulitiple of your UTC offset?

From memory, make sure /etc/localtime is linked to the correct timezone

Thanks. This led me to just typing TZ=America/Los_Angeles (TZ is what mystic
is looking for) and the problem is fixed! previously echo $TZ was just giving a blank response.

i played with timedatectl a bit too...
/etc/localtime is a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

I don't know how permanent this fix is but I'll remember it if I reboot my mystic server. Always helpful as usual, thanks Deon!

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