[SGVLUG] more weird time-zone issues. (re CVS)

[Jeremy Leader]

I had the impression that cvs always used GMT, for things like timestamps in id 
keys and in "cvs log" output?

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Jeremy Leader
jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
leaderj at yahoo-inc.com (work)

on 02/16/2007 02:36 PM Sean O'Donnell  wrote:
> Ok, so I'm sorry for the remedial timezone questions again, but I don't
> quite get this one.
> 
> On my laptop, I have the date: Fri Feb 16 13:51:53 PST 2007
> 
> On my CVS/Web Server, I have the date: Fri Feb 16 15:02:45 MST 2007
> 
> When I check-in a file to my CVS/Web Server, it updates the $Id: keyword
> as such:
> 
> ///$Id: somefile.c,v 1.5 2007/02/16 22:03:26 seanodonnell Exp $
> /
> It appears that the time is (almost) exactly 7 hours ahead of what my
> CVS/Web Server returns from the date command, so I'd say it's safe to
> assume it's not my laptop that has the problem here. *OK*
> 
> I don't have 'root' user access, although it is a Virtual Private Server
> (VPS) and I do have some 'limited' access to certain configuration files
> (such as httpd.conf, and so on), but not to the date (/etc/localtime)
> file, nor to certain executables/commands.
> 
> I noticed that /etc/timezone (which I can edit) contains the following
> setting: TZ=US/Eastern
> 
> I changed it to TZ=America/Los_Angeles
> 
> but I don't have permission to change the date manually (date -s), nor
> to set the hardware clock (hwclock), so I assume the next time they
> reboot this server, that will take affect?
> 
> My main concern is not so much the fact that it's on GMT, or was
> previously set to the east coast timezone, as that is only a 3 hour diff
> (not 7).
> 
> What I'm wondering is how/where CVS is getting such a timestamp that
> differs from the system it's running on???
> 
> This instance of CVS (on my VPS) was installed manually by me, and runs
> as my user (not root), so I don't think the VPS configuration (outside
> of my vps instance, e.g. the actual (non-virtual) system) would have
> anything to do with it, would it?
> 
> Anyhow, appreciate your insight, as always! =)
> 
> Sean O'Donnell
> South Pasadena, CA
> sean at seanodonnell.com
>