> 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.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

Ah, good call, setting the webserver TZ to local time certainly corrected
the status display.  Thanks

I'm not sure entirely what's up with blackout periods, but it may be
unrelated.

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