Re: [OT][Pan-users] posted time anomaly

[Jeff Vian]

.b e. wrote:

> >     Does your system know which time your hardware clock is set to?  
> > Other
> > info you posted leads me to think that it does not.
>
>
> mandrake uses /etc/sysconfig/clock
> which stores what the hardware clock is set to
> ARC=false
> UTC=true
> ZONE=Pacific/Auckland

Although this may be not quite what you want to do, you may be able to 
identify the exact problem by doing a little tweaking with the time 
settings.

I, and probably many others, use the system time set to local instead of 
GMT.
If you try changing that on your system and see if PAN then posts with 
the proper time it would be concrete information that Charles can use to 
find/fix the bug.

Although I have not had that problem, I believe Pan is looking at the 
system time and then adjusts the time of the post to UCT.  If PAN is not 
recognizing that the system time is actually GMT and still makes its 
adjustment to UCT based on the time zone rather than the actual system 
time then that behavior should be reported as a bug.

> > that /etc/localtime is a symlink to whichever time zone you're in.  
> > In my
> > case, this is /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern, and my BIOS clock is 
> > set to
>
>
> this is similar in mandrake
>
> > GMT.  There's another setting in /etc/rc.conf that deals with whether 
> > the
> > BIOS is set to GMT or local time.
> >
> >     Does Mandrake have similar files?  If not, there's probably a cute
> > graphical widget somewhere that controls it.  ;)
>
>
> yep there are too many graphical widgets, but they are all reading the 
> same configuration info and the system is reporting the time correctly 
> with the date command (even vmware corrects windows time)
>
> so unlike dual booting systems where windows gets it wrong, running 
> windows in vmware will get it right, albeit with the hardware clock 
> set to a timezone half a planet away. BUT pan records the time of a 
> post incorrectly;
>
> Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:40:04 +1300
>
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