afaik, memcache expiry timestamp is always based on unix epoch, hence its
timezone independent.

-manoher

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Ravi Chittari <[email protected]>wrote:

> I guess, I did not phrase my question correctly to begin with.
> Changing the server time from EST based to UTC based will  probably
> expire all the items immediately as UTC offsets the time by ( -X
> hours).
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi.
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Brian Moon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 9/22/10 4:03 PM, Matt Ingenthron wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/22/10 1:41 PM, Ravi Chittari wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We have memcached instances up and running in production. We want to
> >>> change our systems from one timezone ( Say EST) to UTC.
> >>> Does memcached instance automatically pick up new Timezone and what
> >>> happens to the cached items?
> >>
> >> IIRC, times are tracked as relative to the local clock, so if you change
> >> the system clock things will either expire late or early. It's probably
> >> best to restart the cache server for this sort of thing.
> >
> > But, changing the system clock is not the same as changing the time zone.
> > Time zones are only a formatting thing. A point in time is the same no
> > matter what the time zone.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Brian.
> > --------
> > http://brian.moonspot.net/
> >
>

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