NethVoice would not allow me to select or put a timezone

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Thanks for posting that, LayLow. I appreciate it.

Yes. That is what I am used to seeing and usually can pick from - a list like that.

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Can you please let me know how I can resolve this so that I can get the correct time for Nethvoice.

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Maybe you can check the tzdata package? Reconfigure it?

HTH

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Here is the output for timedatectl

root@cvserver1:~# timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2024-10-05 04:39:54 EDT
Universal time: Sat 2024-10-05 08:39:54 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2024-10-05 08:39:54
Time zone: US/Eastern (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

Here is the output for cat /etc/timezone

root@cvserver1:~# cat /etc/timezone
US/Eastern

Looks correct, Debian is set correct. So is this a problem Nethvoice?

@Amygos

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Not sure, your tzdata list is too short

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I would agree, when I do the “api-cli run module/nethvoice3/get-defaults | jq” I get a short and non-exhaustive list.

I am specifically talking about the timezone and final setting. It is correct.

Here is the output for cat /etc/timezone (this is direct from Debian)

root@cvserver1:~# cat /etc/timezone
US/Eastern

Here is the output for timedatectl (this is also direct from Debian)

root@cvserver1:~# timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2024-10-05 04:39:54 EDT
Universal time: Sat 2024-10-05 08:39:54 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2024-10-05 08:39:54
Time zone: US/Eastern (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

Looking at the command “api-cli run module/nethvoice3/get-defaults | jq” It says - module/nethvoice3/get-defaults. So is module/nethvoice3 pulling from Nethvoice internal list time zone list (in module) or Debian 12 time list of zones?

That is my question.

I just verified myself. It is this pulling from within module/nethvoice

“api-cli run module/nethvoice3/get-defaults | jq” is pulling from module/nethvoice time zone list only.

If you do “timedatectl list-timezones” it should give you the exhaustive list from Debian underlining OS only.

Output for - timedatectl list-timezones was an exhaustive time zone list.

root@cvserver1:~# timedatectl list-timezones
Africa/Abidjan
Africa/Accra
Africa/Addis_Ababa
Africa/Algiers
Africa/Asmara
Africa/Asmera
Africa/Bamako
Africa/Bangui
Africa/Banjul
Africa/Bissau
Africa/Blantyre
Africa/Brazzaville
Africa/Bujumbura
Africa/Cairo
Africa/Casablanca
Africa/Ceuta
Africa/Conakry
Africa/Dakar
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Africa/Djibouti
Africa/Douala
Africa/El_Aaiun
Africa/Freetown
Africa/Gaborone
Africa/Harare
Africa/Johannesburg
Africa/Juba
Africa/Kampala
Africa/Khartoum
Africa/Kigali
Africa/Kinshasa
Africa/Lagos
Africa/Libreville
Africa/Lome
Africa/Luanda
Africa/Lubumbashi
Africa/Lusaka
Africa/Malabo
Africa/Maputo
Africa/Maseru
Africa/Mbabane
Africa/Mogadishu
Africa/Monrovia
Africa/Nairobi
Africa/Ndjamena
Africa/Niamey
Africa/Nouakchott
Africa/Ouagadougou
Africa/Porto-Novo
Africa/Sao_Tome
Africa/Timbuktu
Africa/Tripoli
Africa/Tunis
Africa/Windhoek
America/Adak
America/Anchorage
America/Anguilla
America/Antigua
America/Araguaina
America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
America/Argentina/Catamarca
America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia
America/Argentina/Cordoba
America/Argentina/Jujuy
America/Argentina/La_Rioja
America/Argentina/Mendoza
America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
America/Argentina/Salta
America/Argentina/San_Juan
America/Argentina/San_Luis
America/Argentina/Tucuman
America/Argentina/Ushuaia
America/Aruba
America/Asuncion
America/Atikokan
America/Atka
America/Bahia
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Barbados
America/Belem
America/Belize
America/Blanc-Sablon
America/Boa_Vista
America/Bogota
America/Boise
America/Buenos_Aires
America/Cambridge_Bay
America/Campo_Grande
America/Cancun
America/Caracas
America/Catamarca
America/Cayenne
America/Cayman
America/Chicago
America/Chihuahua
America/Ciudad_Juarez
America/Coral_Harbour
America/Cordoba
America/Costa_Rica
America/Creston
America/Cuiaba
America/Curacao
America/Danmarkshavn
America/Dawson
America/Dawson_Creek
America/Denver
America/Detroit
America/Dominica
America/Edmonton
America/Eirunepe
America/El_Salvador
America/Ensenada
America/Fort_Nelson
America/Fort_Wayne
America/Fortaleza
America/Glace_Bay
America/Godthab
America/Goose_Bay
America/Grand_Turk
America/Grenada
America/Guadeloupe
America/Guatemala
America/Guayaquil
America/Guyana
America/Halifax
America/Havana
America/Hermosillo
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Knox
America/Indiana/Marengo
America/Indiana/Petersburg
America/Indiana/Tell_City
America/Indiana/Vevay
America/Indiana/Vincennes
America/Indiana/Winamac
America/Indianapolis
America/Inuvik
America/Iqaluit
America/Jamaica
America/Jujuy
America/Juneau
America/Kentucky/Louisville
America/Kentucky/Monticello
America/Knox_IN
America/Kralendijk
America/La_Paz
America/Lima
America/Los_Angeles
America/Louisville
America/Lower_Princes
America/Maceio
America/Managua
America/Manaus
America/Marigot
America/Martinique
America/Matamoros
America/Mazatlan
America/Mendoza
America/Menominee
America/Merida
America/Metlakatla
America/Mexico_City
America/Miquelon
America/Moncton
America/Monterrey
America/Montevideo
America/Montreal
America/Montserrat
America/Nassau
America/New_York
America/Nipigon
America/Nome
America/Noronha
America/North_Dakota/Beulah
America/North_Dakota/Center
America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
America/Nuuk
America/Ojinaga
America/Panama
America/Pangnirtung
America/Paramaribo
America/Phoenix
America/Port-au-Prince
America/Port_of_Spain
America/Porto_Acre
America/Porto_Velho
America/Puerto_Rico
America/Punta_Arenas
America/Rainy_River
America/Rankin_Inlet
America/Recife
America/Regina
America/Resolute
America/Rio_Branco
America/Rosario
America/Santa_Isabel
America/Santarem
America/Santiago
America/Santo_Domingo
America/Sao_Paulo
America/Scoresbysund
America/Shiprock
America/Sitka
America/St_Barthelemy
America/St_Johns
America/St_Kitts
America/St_Lucia
America/St_Thomas
America/St_Vincent
America/Swift_Current
America/Tegucigalpa
America/Thule
America/Thunder_Bay
America/Tijuana
America/Toronto
America/Tortola
America/Vancouver
America/Virgin
America/Whitehorse
America/Winnipeg
America/Yakutat
America/Yellowknife
Antarctica/Casey
Antarctica/Davis
Antarctica/DumontDUrville
Antarctica/Macquarie
Antarctica/Mawson
Antarctica/McMurdo
Antarctica/Palmer
Antarctica/Rothera
Antarctica/South_Pole
Antarctica/Syowa
Antarctica/Troll
Antarctica/Vostok
Arctic/Longyearbyen
Asia/Aden
Asia/Almaty
Asia/Amman
Asia/Anadyr
Asia/Aqtau
Asia/Aqtobe
Asia/Ashgabat
Asia/Ashkhabad
Asia/Atyrau
Asia/Baghdad
Asia/Bahrain
Asia/Baku
Asia/Bangkok
Asia/Barnaul
Asia/Beirut
Asia/Bishkek
Asia/Brunei
Asia/Calcutta
Asia/Chita
Asia/Choibalsan
Asia/Chongqing
Asia/Chungking
Asia/Colombo
Asia/Dacca
Asia/Damascus
Asia/Dhaka
Asia/Dili
Asia/Dubai
Asia/Dushanbe
Asia/Famagusta
Asia/Gaza
Asia/Harbin
Asia/Hebron
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Asia/Hong_Kong
Asia/Hovd
Asia/Irkutsk
Asia/Istanbul
Asia/Jakarta
Asia/Jayapura
Asia/Jerusalem
Asia/Kabul
Asia/Kamchatka
Asia/Karachi
Asia/Kashgar
Asia/Kathmandu
Asia/Katmandu
Asia/Khandyga
Asia/Kolkata
Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Asia/Kuching
Asia/Kuwait
Asia/Macao
Asia/Macau
Asia/Magadan
Asia/Makassar
Asia/Manila
Asia/Muscat
Asia/Nicosia
Asia/Novokuznetsk
Asia/Novosibirsk
Asia/Omsk
Asia/Oral
Asia/Phnom_Penh
Asia/Pontianak
Asia/Pyongyang
Asia/Qatar
Asia/Qostanay
Asia/Qyzylorda
Asia/Rangoon
Asia/Riyadh
Asia/Saigon
Asia/Sakhalin
Asia/Samarkand
Asia/Seoul
Asia/Shanghai
Asia/Singapore
Asia/Srednekolymsk
Asia/Taipei
Asia/Tashkent
Asia/Tbilisi
Asia/Tehran
Asia/Tel_Aviv
Asia/Thimbu
Asia/Thimphu
Asia/Tokyo
Asia/Tomsk
Asia/Ujung_Pandang
Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Asia/Ulan_Bator
Asia/Urumqi
Asia/Ust-Nera
Asia/Vientiane
Asia/Vladivostok
Asia/Yakutsk
Asia/Yangon
Asia/Yekaterinburg
Asia/Yerevan
Atlantic/Azores
Atlantic/Bermuda
Atlantic/Canary
Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Atlantic/Faeroe
Atlantic/Faroe
Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
Atlantic/Madeira
Atlantic/Reykjavik
Atlantic/South_Georgia
Atlantic/St_Helena
Atlantic/Stanley
Australia/ACT
Australia/Adelaide
Australia/Brisbane
Australia/Broken_Hill
Australia/Canberra
Australia/Currie
Australia/Darwin
Australia/Eucla
Australia/Hobart
Australia/LHI
Australia/Lindeman
Australia/Lord_Howe
Australia/Melbourne
Australia/NSW
Australia/North
Australia/Perth
Australia/Queensland
Australia/South
Australia/Sydney
Australia/Tasmania
Australia/Victoria
Australia/West
Australia/Yancowinna
Brazil/Acre
Brazil/DeNoronha
Brazil/East
Brazil/West
CET
CST6CDT
Canada/Atlantic
Canada/Central
Canada/Eastern
Canada/Mountain
Canada/Newfoundland
Canada/Pacific
Canada/Saskatchewan
Canada/Yukon
Chile/Continental
Chile/EasterIsland
Cuba
EET
EST
EST5EDT
Egypt
Eire
Etc/GMT
Etc/GMT+0
Etc/GMT+1
Etc/GMT+10
Etc/GMT+11
Etc/GMT+12
Etc/GMT+2
Etc/GMT+3
Etc/GMT+4
Etc/GMT+5
Etc/GMT+6
Etc/GMT+7
Etc/GMT+8
Etc/GMT+9
Etc/GMT-0
Etc/GMT-1
Etc/GMT-10
Etc/GMT-11
Etc/GMT-12
Etc/GMT-13
Etc/GMT-14
Etc/GMT-2
Etc/GMT-3
Etc/GMT-4
Etc/GMT-5
Etc/GMT-6
Etc/GMT-7
Etc/GMT-8
Etc/GMT-9
Etc/GMT0
Etc/Greenwich
Etc/UCT
Etc/UTC
Etc/Universal
Etc/Zulu
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Andorra
Europe/Astrakhan
Europe/Athens
Europe/Belfast
Europe/Belgrade
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Bratislava
Europe/Brussels
Europe/Bucharest
Europe/Budapest
Europe/Busingen
Europe/Chisinau
Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Dublin
Europe/Gibraltar
Europe/Guernsey
Europe/Helsinki
Europe/Isle_of_Man
Europe/Istanbul
Europe/Jersey
Europe/Kaliningrad
Europe/Kiev
Europe/Kirov
Europe/Kyiv
Europe/Lisbon
Europe/Ljubljana
Europe/London
Europe/Luxembourg
Europe/Madrid
Europe/Malta
Europe/Mariehamn
Europe/Minsk
Europe/Monaco
Europe/Moscow
Europe/Nicosia
Europe/Oslo
Europe/Paris
Europe/Podgorica
Europe/Prague
Europe/Riga
Europe/Rome
Europe/Samara
Europe/San_Marino
Europe/Sarajevo
Europe/Saratov
Europe/Simferopol
Europe/Skopje
Europe/Sofia
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Tallinn
Europe/Tirane
Europe/Tiraspol
Europe/Ulyanovsk
Europe/Uzhgorod
Europe/Vaduz
Europe/Vatican
Europe/Vienna
Europe/Vilnius
Europe/Volgograd
Europe/Warsaw
Europe/Zagreb
Europe/Zaporozhye
Europe/Zurich
Factory
GB
GB-Eire
GMT
GMT+0
GMT-0
GMT0
Greenwich
HST
Hongkong
Iceland
Indian/Antananarivo
Indian/Chagos
Indian/Christmas
Indian/Cocos
Indian/Comoro
Indian/Kerguelen
Indian/Mahe
Indian/Maldives
Indian/Mauritius
Indian/Mayotte
Indian/Reunion
Iran
Israel
Jamaica
Japan
Kwajalein
Libya
MET
MST
MST7MDT
Mexico/BajaNorte
Mexico/BajaSur
Mexico/General
NZ
NZ-CHAT
Navajo
PRC
PST8PDT
Pacific/Apia
Pacific/Auckland
Pacific/Bougainville
Pacific/Chatham
Pacific/Chuuk
Pacific/Easter
Pacific/Efate
Pacific/Enderbury
Pacific/Fakaofo
Pacific/Fiji
Pacific/Funafuti
Pacific/Galapagos
Pacific/Gambier
Pacific/Guadalcanal
Pacific/Guam
Pacific/Honolulu
Pacific/Johnston
Pacific/Kanton
Pacific/Kiritimati
Pacific/Kosrae
Pacific/Kwajalein
Pacific/Majuro
Pacific/Marquesas
Pacific/Midway
Pacific/Nauru
Pacific/Niue
Pacific/Norfolk
Pacific/Noumea
Pacific/Pago_Pago
Pacific/Palau
Pacific/Pitcairn
Pacific/Pohnpei
Pacific/Ponape
Pacific/Port_Moresby
Pacific/Rarotonga
Pacific/Saipan
Pacific/Samoa
Pacific/Tahiti
Pacific/Tarawa
Pacific/Tongatapu
Pacific/Truk
Pacific/Wake
Pacific/Wallis
Pacific/Yap
Poland
Portugal
ROC
ROK
Singapore
Turkey
UCT
US/Alaska
US/Aleutian
US/Arizona
US/Central
US/East-Indiana
US/Eastern
US/Hawaii
US/Indiana-Starke
US/Michigan
US/Mountain
US/Pacific
US/Samoa
UTC
Universal
W-SU
WET
Zulu
lines 551-597/597 (END)

I would say this is a bug in Nethvoice. Maybe for Debian install only? Not sure. But all three installs had time zone list issue so far.

@Amygos @dnutan

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I could be reading it wrong but looking at the code it builds up a list from /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/ (taking into account subdirectories).
If no timezone is configured on the app it falls-back to UTC.

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@dnutan is correct that the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix is where the timezone actually seems to be coming from, when Nethvoice pulls the timezone under Debian 12.

Here is the output of my /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix directory -

Africa
America
Antarctica
Arctic
Asia
Atlantic
Australia
Brazil
Canada
CET
Chile
CST6CDT
Cuba
EET
Egypt
Eire
EST
EST5EDT
Etc
Europe
Factory
GB
GB-Eire
GMT
GMT+0
GMT-0
GMT0
Greenwich
Hongkong
HST
Iceland
Indian
Iran
Israel
Jamaica
Japan
Kwajalein
Libya
MET
Mexico
MST
MST7MDT
Navajo
NZ
NZ-CHAT
output.txt
Pacific
Poland
Portugal
PRC
PST8PDT
ROC
ROK
Singapore
Turkey
UCT
Universal
US
UTC
WET
W-SU
Zulu

@LayLow can you post a screenshot or copy and paste of your rocky os /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix directory?

I am interested to see what your rocky linux /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix looks like compared to my Debian 12 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix.

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Please note that all -drwxr listings are directories.

HTH

ps

timedatectl list-timezones > timezones.txt
wc -l < timezones.txt

597 timezone locations in timezones.txt

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Yep, there are some issues with how the list is retrieved on Debian, yet I haven’t found the time to investigate it.
Here you can find the relative code: ns8-nethvoice/imageroot/actions/get-defaults/10defaults at main ¡ nethesis/ns8-nethvoice ¡ GitHub

In the meantime, if you find out how to fix it, a PR is very welcome :wink:

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How does it differ from e.g. Rocky Linux pls?

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I asked ChatGPT :slight_smile:

You can use Python's zoneinfo module (introduced in Python 3.9) to retrieve a list of all available timezones on your Debian Linux system. Here's a short and efficient Python code to do that:

python
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import zoneinfo

# Get the list of available timezones
timezones = zoneinfo.available_timezones()

# Print all timezones
for tz in sorted(timezones):
    print(tz)
This will print the complete list of timezones available on the system. The zoneinfo.available_timezones() function retrieves the set of available IANA timezones.

and

#!/usr/bin/env python3

#
# Copyright (C) 2024 Nethesis S.r.l.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
#

import json
import sys
import os

timezones_directory = "/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/"

# Recursively walk through the timezone directory and collect files
accepted_timezone_list = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(timezones_directory):
    for file in files:
        # Get relative path of the file
        full_path = os.path.join(root, file)
        relative_path = os.path.relpath(full_path, timezones_directory)
        accepted_timezone_list.append(relative_path)

# Output the list as JSON
config = {
    "accepted_timezone_list": accepted_timezone_list,
}

# Dump the JSON to stdout
json.dump(config, fp=sys.stdout, indent=4)
Key Changes:
os.walk:

Replaced the find command with os.walk(), which recursively traverses the timezone directory, making it more portable and avoiding the need for shell commands.
Relative Paths:

Used os.path.relpath() to compute relative paths from the timezones_directory, so the output format remains similar to what you'd expect from find.
JSON Formatting:

Added indent=4 to make the JSON output more readable, though you can remove it if compact output is desired.
Benefits:
Portability: It will now work across any system where Python is available, without relying on external commands.
Security: Avoids the use of shell=True and external command execution.

Maybe the keyword here is ‘Recursively’

BTW; You’d be surpirsed what ChatGPT says about “What is Nethserver 8”. It seems we are THE Alma Linux distro nr 1 sir!

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As AI said (as well as Organic Intelligence), since python 3.9 there is zoneinfo module.

A Frankenstein from current script mixed with zoneinfo, outputing same json format (and without error handling):

import json
import sys
import zoneinfo
from functools import lru_cache

@lru_cache(maxsize=None)
def get_timezones():
    return zoneinfo.available_timezones()

accepted_timezone_list = list(get_timezones())

config={
        "accepted_timezone_list": accepted_timezone_list,
        }

json.dump(config, fp=sys.stdout)

Tested on Debian and Rocky.

Additionally to the zoneinfo python’s module info page, a good read for other missing parts (CLDR, deprecated names… although nowadays the list is current) and where the cache tip came from is How to List All Time Zones in Python - Adam Johnson

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This made my day!

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Derailing from topic but just FYI, either used as a joke or pejoratively, Frankencode is a thing as well as is (or was) Spaghetti Code :spaghetti:.

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I hope @Shadowfire is ok(ish) in FL/USA. A lot of OI required over there atm.

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Hey LayLow. Thanks for the hope sent my way. My family and I are doing ok (very thankful). We stayed in our home during the hurricane. We have been through many hurricanes in the past. We are in the middle of Florida, so it usually is not as bad as the coast of Florida when it comes to hurricanes. Our house was spared (very thankful). There were some serious winds, of course. Thankfully, we are on higher ground, so we escaped the flooding. We lost power, a minor inconvenience compared to others people’s challenges in Florida. We have friends of the family who lost everything. May other in Florida we devastated. My heart and prayers go out to them. After the storm was over we quickly cleaned up and then went to help neighbor, and family. Our power came back (very thankful) after we left to go help others. Today is a rest and chill day tho. :wink:

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