Re: [Tlf-devel] TIME_OFFSET in logcfg.dat

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2016 05 Jan 19:57 -0600, Pierre Fogal wrote:
> So, what's the purpose of this?  I just discovered my RAC Winter contest
> log is 5 hours off because I put TIME_OFFSET=5 into my logcfg.dat after I
> came across it in the logcfg.dat example.  It has a helpful comment of
> 
> #################################
> #                               #
> #  Time offset from UTC         #
> #                               #
> #################################
> 
> so I figured ... what the heck.
> 
> Eastern standard time is 5 hours from UT.
> 
> Clearly it was not the right thing to do.

Probably reasonably easy to fix with Perl or AWK/Sed.  Do back up your
log file first!  This is the upside of a plain text log file.

Ahh well, you'll remember that detail next time.  ;-)

Good luck!

73, Nate

P.S. you're not the first who has gained 'experience' in a like manner!

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