[Solved] [Q] Updating timezone on android 4.3

asem.arafa · May 16, 2014

Hello

i generated a tzdata file with the new 2014c timezone file from IANA to reflect a change in my country DST

i pushed the file to /system/usr/share/zoneinfo and changed the permisions to 644 and rebooted , and the time change wasnt reflected

what i noticed after reboot is that time is changed only for normal user not root

Code:

shell@t03g:/ $ date
Fri May 16 15:07:35 EEST 2014
shell@t03g:/ $ su
root@t03g:/ # date
Fri May 16 14:07:48 EET 2014

any idea of what may i have missed?

prince93 · May 16, 2014

asem.arafa said:
Hello

i generated a tzdata file with the new 2014c timezone file from IANA to reflect a change in my country DST

i pushed the file to /system/usr/share/zoneinfo and changed the permisions to 644 and rebooted , and the time change wasnt reflected

what i noticed after reboot is that time is changed only for normal user not root

Code:

shell@t03g:/ $ date Fri May 16 15:07:35 EEST 2014 shell@t03g:/ $ su root@t03g:/ # date Fri May 16 14:07:48 EET 2014

any idea of what may i have missed?

Can you please share with us the tzdata file you generated?

asem.arafa · May 16, 2014

prince93 said:
Can you please share with us the tzdata file you generated?

Here it is

prince93 · May 16, 2014

asem.arafa said:
Here it is

Thanks alot

asem.arafa · May 16, 2014

prince93 said:
Thanks alot

please confirm it works , as the change is not reflected as i said in the first post

prince93 · May 16, 2014

asem.arafa said:
please confirm it works , as the change is not reflected as i said in the first post

Unfortunately not working..
I copied the tzdata file to /system/use/share/zoneinfo and changed the permissions to be even read,write &execute for owner,group and other and rebooted but not working
On android 4.4.2
How did you compile this file?

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asem.arafa · May 16, 2014

prince93 said:
Unfortunately not working..
I copied the tzdata file to /system/use/share/zoneinfo and changed the permissions to be even read,write &execute for owner,group and other and rebooted but not working
On android 4.4.2
How did you compile this file?

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well i followed this outdated post

i got the ZoneCompactor.java file from here instead as the one in the post only works for pre 4.3 android

i attached my working directory including with the edits i made to the script in the outdated post

prince93 · May 16, 2014

asem.arafa said:
well i followed this outdated post

i got the ZoneCompactor.java file from here instead as the one in the post only works for pre 4.3 android

i attached my working directory including with the edits i made to the script in the outdated post

Well, I was trying to do the same as you did but using the zonecompactor & the python script in the link you attached but I got an error telling me could not find bionic library or so.
So, you used the old generator script with some modifications.
It seems the file is correct (an app called timezone fix that was also attached in the outdated post referred to can read the file as 2014c). No idea what the problem may be.
Maybe we need to uncheck the automatic date and time and reboot?
I unchecked without a reboot but nothing happened .

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asem.arafa · May 16, 2014

prince93 said:
Well, I was trying to do the same as you did but using the zonecompactor & the python script in the link you attached but I got an error telling me could not find bionic library or so.
So, you used the old generator script with some modifications.
It seems the file is correct (an app called timezone fix that was also attached in the outdated post referred to can read the file as 2014c). No idea what the problem may be.
Maybe we need to uncheck the automatic date and time and reboot?
I unchecked without a reboot but nothing happened .

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i downloaded a new BufferIterator.java and ZoneCompactor.java and ZoneInfo.java to be compatable with 4.3 and used the generate script from the old post

now i used the timezone file with a phone with cyanogenmod 11 and it worked !!

whats the output of the date command from the shell?

normal and root

prince93 · May 16, 2014

asem.arafa said:
i downloaded a new BufferIterator.java and ZoneCompactor.java and ZoneInfo.java to be compatable with 4.3 and used the generate script from the old post

now i used the timezone file with a phone with cyanogenmod 11 and it worked !!

whats the output of the date command from the shell?

normal and root

I tried the date command for normal and root users and both are wrong (no DST applied) with the file you provided earlier.
The one you tried on the CM11 is a different one than the one you shared with us earlier?
For CM11, it should be the same as stock 4.4.2.
Strange that it didn't work on my N4!

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asem.arafa · May 18, 2014

prince93 said:
I tried the date command for normal and root users and both are wrong (no DST applied) with the file you provided earlier.
The one you tried on the CM11 is a different one than the one you shared with us earlier?
For CM11, it should be the same as stock 4.4.2.
Strange that it didn't work on my N4!

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I finally found the root cause

it was Xposed framework !!
disabling it solved the issue

i will try to check for a workaround as i use too many modules

prince93 · May 18, 2014

asem.arafa said:
I finally found the root cause

it was Xposed framework !!
disabling it solved the issue

i will try to check for a workaround as i use too many modules

Are you sure?
I just uninstalled the framework and rebooted but it is still the same!

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asem.arafa · May 18, 2014

prince93 said:
Are you sure?
I just uninstalled the framework and rebooted but it is still the same!

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yes made sure multiple times and even tried to narrow down to a certain module but the time is not fixed until i completely uninstalled the framework

try after uninstallation to use the timezone fixer tool, the dev upgraded his version to have 2014c

prince93 · May 18, 2014

asem.arafa said:
yes made sure multiple times and even tried to narrow down to a certain module but the time is not fixed until i completely uninstalled the framework

try after uninstallation to use the timezone fixer tool, the dev upgraded his version to have 2014c

Yes I already updated the time zone fixer tool and the fixer reads the database version as 2014c.
I uninstalled the framework but left the xposed installer, I think that doesn't make a difference..

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asem.arafa · May 20, 2014

prince93 said:
Yes I already updated the time zone fixer tool and the fixer reads the database version as 2014c.
I uninstalled the framework but left the xposed installer, I think that doesn't make a difference..

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check if you have the tzdata file also under this path /data/misc/zoneinfo and change it

that solved the root user issue for me

prince93 · May 20, 2014

asem.arafa said:
check if you have the tzdata file also under this path /data/misc/zoneinfo and change it

that solved the root user issue for me

Great!
Worked at last
Thanks alot

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prince93 · May 24, 2014

asem.arafa said:
check if you have the tzdata file also under this path /data/misc/zoneinfo and change it

that solved the root user issue for me

Right now after replacing the file under /misc, I am still getting the times in what's app for example and the dialer log showing the old time (the non DST time)
Are you getting the same results ?

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asem.arafa · May 24, 2014

prince93 said:
Right now after replacing the file under /misc, I am still getting the times in what's app for example and the dialer log showing the old time (the non DST time)
Are you getting the same results ?

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the time is completely correct now after replacing the file in both locations
Can you give me the permissions of both files and the output of the date command for both users?

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prince93 · May 24, 2014

asem.arafa said:
the time is completely correct now after replacing the file in both locations
Can you give me the permissions of both files and the output of the date command for both users?

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Permissions :
RW for owner (root)
Read only for group and other

Here is the date command for both users

u0_a201@mako:/ $ date
Sat May 24 14:06:18 EEST 2014
u0_a201@mako:/ $ su
root@mako:/ # date
Sat May 24 14:06:29 EEST 2014
root@mako:/ #
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asem.arafa · May 24, 2014

prince93 said:
Permissions :
RW for owner (root)
Read only for group and other

Here is the date command for both users

u0_a201@mako:/ $ date
Sat May 24 14:06:18 EEST 2014
u0_a201@mako:/ $ su
root@mako:/ # date
Sat May 24 14:06:29 EEST 2014
root@mako:/ #
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Every thing look in order
Sorry I don't have a nexus so I can't guess what's the issue here
May be clear cache and dalivik and see?
Also look at the date and time settings
Is it set to automatic and if so does it chow cairo+3?

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