My raspi knows when EDT (Eastern US Daylight Time) is active,
HypriotOS/armv7: pirate@black-pearl in ~
$ date
Thu Oct 17 10:27:27 EDT 2019
the docker container for homeassistant knows when EDT is active,
root@black-pearl:/# date
Thu Oct 17 10:28:54 EDT 2019
but I cannot manage to get homeassistant v.0.100.2 to reflect this.
I've used
time_zone: EST
which does display the correct time if I were NOT in daylight savings.
Here's what else Ive tried:
passing in the hosts time, which clearly works as evidenced by the docker containers console
-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime
-v /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
Leaving blank in the hopes that freegeoip will solve this for me.
Using time_zone: EDT instead of EST but it isn't recognized as a valid config.
Ultimately I'm not above lying to hass and telling it we're in America/Moncton (UTC - 4) and manually switching it back to EST (UTC - 5) the night before our transitions, but thats not really in the spirit of automation so I'd rather not.
Any help?
America/New_York
SOLVED
this worked. im a dingus. if i knew how to read and FOLLOW DIRECTIONS i would have read to use tz_database_name instead of its common abbreviation.
credit to reddits u/kb5zuy