Hi Max, Thank you!
Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: >> Maxim Khitrov wrote: >>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've set up (on FreeBSD) a fossil server using the inetd method. When >>>> looking at the timeline display I see the times displayed in UTC, and >>>> since I'd rather see local time, I tried to fix this using Timeline >>>> Display Preferences. However the "Use UTC" box is not checked, and in >>>> fact there is the text "On this server, local time is currently the >>>> same as UTC and so this setting will make no difference in the >>>> display." >>>> >>>> On the command line: >>>> >>>> anukis% date >>>> Wed May 1 19:19:31 EDT 2013 >>>> anukis% date -u >>>> Wed May 1 23:19:33 UTC 2013 >>>> >>>> How does the server see local time? >>> >>> See the following link for why this happens and how to fix it: >>> >>> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/pipermail/fossil-users/2012-December/010989.html >> >> Thanks for the link, but I'm still puzzled as to what to do in my >> situation. I'm not using chroot (perhaps I should be if I were >> actually sharing the repository with others, but right now I'm only >> using it locally for my own use). > > If fossil is running as root, then it chroots to the directory > containing your repository without any additional configuration. Try > the following: > > cd <repository-location> > mkdir -p etc usr/share/zoneinfo > mount -rt nullfs /usr/share/zoneinfo usr/share/zoneinfo > ln -s ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York etc/localtime > > Now check the time in fossil's web interface. It should see a > difference between local time and UTC. If it does, you can add the > zoneinfo mount to /etc/fstab: > /usr/share/zoneinfo /path/to/usr/share/zoneinfo nullfs ro 0 0 This was very helpful; I am now seeing local times displayed in the web interface. Thank you again! -- Will _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
