> Recently I noticed my time stamps(in exim received headers) are off > by 1 hour. I believe this is due to day light savings? It's my > understanding that exim uses the time zone of the system at build > time. Which would be correct, but when daylight savings adjusted > the system time, exim doesn't?? > > So once we fell forward my exim received headers have been off my 1 > hour.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_14.html#IX1255 --> By default, the timestamps on log lines are in local time --> without the timezone. This means that if your timezone --> changes twice a year, the timestamps in log lines are --> ambiguous for an hour when the clocks go back. One way of --> avoiding this problem is to set the timezone to UTC. An --> alternative is to set log_timezone true. This turns on the --> addition of the timezone offset to timestamps in log lines. --> Turning on this option can add quite a lot to the size of --> log files because each line is extended by 6 characters. Basically, just add the line log_timezone to the general part of your config file and you'll get this 2005-10-03 14:19:14 +0100 End queue run: pid=17826 instead of this 2005-10-03 14:19:14 End queue run: pid=17826 in the log file. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
