I need to be able to change the system timezone setting and restart the built-in ntpd daemon.  Any ideas what I am missing:

root@OpenWrt:~# uci show system.@system[0].timezone
system.cfg02e48a.timezone=MST7
root@OpenWrt:~# date
Mon Jul 23 13:22:38 MST 2012
root@OpenWrt:~# uci set system.@system[0].timezone=MST-7
root@OpenWrt:~# uci commit
root@OpenWrt:~# /etc/init.d/sysntpd restart
root@OpenWrt:~# date
Mon Jul 23 13:23:13 MST 2012

??

This is using the vanilla out of the box firmware's sysntpd.  I did notice that if I change it, and reboot, it seems to set it correctly.  What am I missing?  How can I get around the requirement of rebooting?

Thanks!

Bump - any ideas?

All you need to do to apply the new timezone is:

uci get system.@system[0].timezone > /tmp/TZ

The init scripts do basically that on boot. You do not even need to restart the ntpd since the timezone just controls the date formatting / localtime calculation, the internal system time is always in UTC.

Hmm ... we have a process that is running and logging the time and we use those times in our reporting.  So the date is pretty important.

We are currently using rdate, but I noticed that is deprecated for using ntpd instead.  Am I missing something?  Is the internal date driven off the /tmp/TZ and that is why when I hit date it wasn't working?

Thanks!

I don't understand your question.

NM - your solution worked perfectly.  I was just trying to understand, but in the end I don't prob need to know - it just works!  Thanks!