On 11/15/2011 4:28 PM, Issac Goldstand wrote:
I'd likely -1 anything that assumed without allowing the user to specify an override.
what on earth is wrong with --- ../httpd-2.x/support/apachectl.in (revision 1198625) +++ ../httpd-2.x/support/apachectl.in (working copy) @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ # the path to your httpd binary, including options if necessary HTTPD='@exp_sbindir@/@progname@' # +# desired local timezone representation for logs +TZ=GMT+0000 +# # pick up any necessary environment variables if test -f @exp_sbindir@/envvars; then . @exp_sbindir@/envvars or... SetEnv TZ GMT+0000 There you go, two mechanisms "allowing the user to specify an override" Can we quit inventing redundant directives? I'm certainly -1 on such a directive. I'm totally +1 if someone wants to document the appropriate use of the TZ variable. And I'd be very cool with ensuring that we tzset() after allowing conf parsing/SetEnv processing and before forking.
