>Number: 2187 >Category: general >Synopsis: web server running 1 hour ahead of the server itself >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Tue May 5 21:40:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3b5 >Environment: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (25) % uname -a SunOS sinistar 5.5 Generic_103093-06 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 >Description:
DATE_LOCAL in an ssi echo command was printing May 6 when it was still May 5. Couldn't figure out what was wrong or how to change the effective time zone of the server, so we just restarted it. error_log has: [Wed May 6 00:21:15 1998] [notice] httpd: caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Tue May 5 23:21:31 1998] [notice] Apache/1.3b5 configured -- resuming normal operations now. We were in EST/EDT up until 4-5 months ago, so I thought maybe the server was set to the wrong time zone. However, it appears this was a one time problem and not a recurring one. No idea if it has happened in the past, I don't believe so. But it did tonight. We use DATE_LOCAL and ssi to set a filename to print the current image for the day, and we had a broken link tonight after 11pm since the web server was an hour ahead of the crontab that makes the files... >How-To-Repeat: I can't repeat it, it just happened out of the blue. Someone suggested "they may call time twice and assume the first digit doesn't change between them" but I have no idea myself. Our server isn't too fast and has a slow startup from lots of fastcgi static processes. I restarted the server with: kill pid; sleep 2; /web/bin/httpd -f /web/conf/httpd but that alone won't repeat it. >Fix: I restarted the server and the time (or timezone) was correct. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ]
