> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
