severity 704950 minor tags 704950 wontfix thanks On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:30:20PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-04-08 09:38:17 +0100, Paul Martin wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:40:17PM -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Note that the timezone was changed from Europe/Paris to US/Central > > > earlier this day. This may be related. But I'd expect logrotate to > > > obviously consider UTC time when comparing dates; if it does, this > > > cannot explain the above errors. > > > > Sorry, no. It uses local time, to match how cron(8) works. > > I don't see why this is necessary. Note that cron doesn't do > time stamp comparisons, AFAIK. At least cron has never thought > that some file has been created in the future.
But cron does run on local time, so logrotate has to be able to cope with daylight savings time changes. Hence it runs on local time too. > > Gandi hosting, perhaps? > > No, just a laptop, which comes with me when I travel. In that case, edit /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and change it to have TZ=UTC /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf so that it doesn't care about the local time zone. -- Paul Martin <p...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
