> On 6/24/2011 1:17 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>>
>> I'm running BackupPC on a Gentoo system, where the hardware clock is set
>> to UTC and /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime are set to America/Chicago,
>> and the backuppc user has TZ=America/Chicago in its environment.
>>
>> On BackupPC's status page, it appears to report server restarts and so
>> on
>> in UTC.  However, the log file is clearly in Central time.
>>
>> Yet, as far as I can tell, the blackout periods and scheduled wakeups
>> and
>> so on are all in UTC.
>>
>> This isn't particularly convenient, and seems a little strange.  Am I
>> missing something?
>
> What is the TZ environment for the web server?  Not sure about the exact
> details but it is normal for time values to be stored as UTC and
> converted for local time display according to the process handling it.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     [email protected]

Ah, good call, setting the webserver TZ to local time certainly corrected
the status display.  Thanks

I'm not sure entirely what's up with blackout periods, but it may be
unrelated.

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