-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Foo wrote: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:41:52 +0200, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.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 BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknb9KIACgkQCgsXFM/7nTwuwQCg2a/CtpHxRWj96NqVYXVF/66r DKsAn1k7K7q5zCXFRv/Qw75BfegG2EjE =SnZY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
