Adrian Maier wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Jeremy Drake <pgsql@jdrake.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Adrian Maier wrote:
>>
>> > It's not clear to me where does that date-in-the-future come from.
>> > The machine's
>> > date is set correctly:
>> > $ date
>> > Mon Sep 11 11:00:30 PST 2006
>>
>> Um, no. I am currently in the PST time zone, and I can say from
>> first-hand experience that the current time is 2:21 am, not 11 am. I
>> have
>> confirmed this by looking out the window and noticing a distinct lack of
>> light. The time you have quoted is about 8.5 hours in the future.
>> Suggest you either verify your time zone, or look out your window
>> ;)
>
> Thanks Jeremy,
> You are right, I hadn't realised that 'PST' indicates a timezone
> (the wrong one..).
> I'll have to change the timezone to GMT+2 .
>
> Sorry for the noise !
>
FYI, the buildfarm scripts all ignore timezone completely. All time
calculations are done in terms of UTC (a.k.a. GMT for these purposes).
The result you saw was from some sanity checks built into the web app.
All machines that report buildfarm results should run an NTP client or
some equivalent means of keeping the system clock reasonably accurate.
NTP clients are available for every platform we support (including Windows).
If you want to see the UTC time setting, give the command: date -u
cheers
andrew