On Wed 02 Nov 2016, Bjoern Laessig wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 15:50 +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Tue 01 Nov 2016, Björn Lässig wrote: > > > or have a configuration option to setup a TimeZone for dirvish to use > > > instead of 'localtime'. > > > > Of course, if you start dirvish-runall as: > > > > env TZ=UTC dirvish-runall > > > > then that problem is already solved. > > I am partially disagree, the summary file does not mention any > timezone. So all your scripts have to assume one. > What happens, when the TZ changes? Backupsservers run for years ...
I've never been worried by the time written in the summary file, as long as the backup gets made (Status: successful) then I'm happy. Using UTC in this way means you don't have to worry about timezones or whether they're changing. You could consider UTC as not being a timezone at all, but the Universal Time... Paul _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish