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Foo wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:41:52 +0200, Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT
> com>
> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:34:09 +0200, Foo said:
>>> The best solution would be for Bacula to translate time to UTC
>>> internally
>>> for scheduling, everything external such as logfiles, scheduling stanzas
>>> in config etc. would remain in the user's locale.
>> That doesn't help, because saying 2:05am local time in the config file is
>> still ambiguous if the local time moves backwards by 1 hour at 3:00am.
>
> Not really, UTC remains the same on DST changes, so internal events using
> UTC should be fine.
>
> Basically on startup Bacula needs to check the locale, get the offset from
> UTC, if any, and set its internal clock to UTC, and change the offset on
> DST changes. Then use the offset for calculations involving configs/user
> output like logging.
It may be feasible/practical to add a new feature: Use UTC time.
>> To resolve this, Bacula would have to use UTC in the config file as well.
>
> See above.
>
>> Alternatively, it would need some non-trivial code to deal with the
>> duplicate/missing local times.
>
> I don't see how this is not trivial code. I would assume some standard
> library/system clock routines are used for time, just put a filter routine
> in between and call that instead (hopefully this should be a search and
> replace in the code).
If it was trivial, don't you think we'd have already done it?
For that matter, patches welcome.
- --
Dan Langille
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