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.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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