On 2016-11-02 09:10, Paul Slootman wrote: > 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...
Indeed, and IIRC the notion of [expecting to be able to] running servers on anything other than UTC is a relatively modern conceit. Cheers, Dave > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > Dirvish@dirvish.org > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
