severity 416177 minor tags 416177 confirmed wontfix thanks On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:57:18PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > My time switched to BST (UK's DST) last night. I have it setup > "properly" ie the system clock is UTC, not the MS Windows way. When I > ran logrotate on a file today it complained that it had been rotated in > the future. I'm not sure exactly why that happened, but I guess it's > something to do with logrotate using localtime where it would be better > to use gmtime.
Yes, it does use localtime. However, this is unlikely to be a problem for most people, as they don't usually rotate files more than once a day. Bear in mind that cron uses localtime, too. Fixing this is most likely to cause problems for logrotate's most usual purpose, which is rotating logs as part of a daily cron job. What would happen in that case is that around summer time changes you would get a day when logs didn't get rotated, which could be at the least inconvenient for some users. Feel free to correct my logic if I'm spouting rubbish. -- Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
