[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the CVS environment variable to set the > CVS repository's time zone, CVS_TZ? I couldn't > find it in the online docs (searching for "time > zone"). Also should it be set to UTC or EST (in > eastern US). > CVS on the server uses the TZ set on the server OS, to get the time and uses UTC internally. on linux try `ls /etc/localtime -l` man tzselect
If you happen to be asking about how the time is displayed in `cvs log`, in 1.11.x[2] at least it is always in UTC. IMHO that is the correct one for CVS to use, it is pretty unambiguous. If you want logs shown in EST, look at cvs2cl[1] which by default shows them in client machine local timezone, or you can select UTC. As for as what your server machine should be set to ... either the correct TZ for its location, or UTC as long as when the admin is setting the time s/he sets the time that is correct for the used TZ. easy choice :) I generally use local TZ (US/East-Indiana) for the OS system time, and because the Hard Ware Clock is not shared with another operating system it keeps time at UTC and hwclock knows both of these timezones. So I can always gripe at people about _when_ they did things, the server gets system time from an several NTP sources.:) [1] http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/ [2] in 1.12.x I have heard they have played with some of the time outputs, but I have not kept track of which ones and how they have changed them, the things I indicated may have changed. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs