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An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.
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Failed to get local machine timezone: "/etc/localtime" is not a symlink - cannot infer name #525

Closed seryrzu closed 3 weeks ago

seryrzu commented 3 weeks ago

Running either the latest build for Linux x86_64 or building immich-go from source, results in the following issue.

$ ./immich-go --help
panic: failed to get local machine timezone: "/etc/localtime" is not a symlink - cannot infer name

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/simulot/immich-go/immich/metadata.init.0()
        /var/services/homes/seryrzu/soft/immich-go/immich/metadata/timezone.go:15 +0x5c

I do this on a Synology NAS, that is technically a Linux

uname --all
Linux <> 4.4.302+ <> Fri Jan 12 17:01:14 CST 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux <>

and Linux is supposed to (?) have a symlink at /etc/localtime, but in my case it is a binary.

A temporary fix that I found is to set env variable first

$ export TZ="America/Los_Angeles"
./immich-go --help

It would be cool if there is an automated solution for this or at least a clarification in the manual. Thanks!

simulot commented 3 weeks ago

Another workaround is to use the time-zone=time_zone_name option

I don't know how to make it working in all cases. I was glad enough to get it working for linux (ubuntu at least), freeBSD and MacOS 😅 I think to remove this dependence in the future.