Well that's interesting… it likes UTC, it likes US/PST, but it doesn't like the 
timezone I'm in. Any thoughts as to how to fix this?

escorpiao:etc seawolf$ sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime 
Password:
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ date
Tue Oct  8 23:01:57 UTC 2013
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ /usr/local/Cellar/riak/1.4.1/erts-5.9.1/bin/erl
Erlang R15B01 (erts-5.9.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] 
[kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.9.1  (abort with ^G)
1> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}, true).
{{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}
2> q().
ok
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Brunei 
/etc/localtime
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ date
Wed Oct  9 07:03:23 BNT 2013
escorpiao:etc seawol/usr/local/Cellar/riak/1.4.1/erts-5.9.1/bin/erl
Erlang R15B01 (erts-5.9.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] 
[kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.9.1  (abort with ^G)
1> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}, true).
** exception error: bad argument
     in function  erlang:localtime_to_universaltime/2
        called as erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}},true)
2> q().
ok
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific 
/etc/localtime 
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ date
Tue Oct  8 16:07:01 PDT 2013
escorpiao:etc seawolf$ /usr/local/Cellar/riak/1.4.1/erts-5.9.1/bin/erl
Erlang R15B01 (erts-5.9.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] 
[kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.9.1  (abort with ^G)
1> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}, true).
{{2013,9,28},{15,0,35}}
2> q().
ok
3> escorpiao:etc seawolf$ 


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On Oct 9, 2013, at 03:10 , Luke Bakken <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Just for kicks, change your machine's time zone to GMT, verify via the "date" 
> command, and re-try the Erlang snippet.
> 
> --
> Luke Bakken
> CSE
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:38 PM, jeffrey k eliasen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting… looks like that Erlang doesn't like something. I don't actually 
> know what to do from here (Erlang is still a big black box to me).
> 
> escorpiao:~ seawolf$ /usr/local/Cellar/riak/1.4.1/erts-5.9.1/bin/erl
> Erlang R15B01 (erts-5.9.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] 
> [kernel-poll:false]
> 
> Eshell V5.9.1  (abort with ^G)
> 1> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}, true).
> ** exception error: bad argument
>      in function  erlang:localtime_to_universaltime/2
>         called as 
> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}},true)
> 2> q().
> ok
> 
> 
> ---------- 
> jeffrey k eliasen - technologist
> blog | linkedin | google+ | facebook | twitter
> 
> 
> On Oct 4, 2013, at 05:39 , Luke Bakken <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Homebrew installed Riak will use the Erlang located in this directory:
>> 
>> /usr/local/Cellar/riak/1.4.2/erts-5.9.1/bin/erl
>> 
>> Could you retry the code snippet using the erl located there? Also, the 
>> output of which -a erl could be useful. I think you should uninstall your 
>> homebrew-installed Erlang as it's a more recent version than the one 
>> installed via homebrew for Riak. Personally I use kerl to manage Erlang 
>> versions instead of homebrew.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Luke Bakken
>> CSE
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:25 PM, jeffrey k eliasen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for looking into this!
>> 
>> Same machine:
>> 
>> escorpiao:programming_in_c seawolf$ date
>> Thu Oct  3 10:22:31 BNT 2013
>> escorpiao:programming_in_c seawolf$ erl
>> Erlang R16B01 (erts-5.10.2) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] 
>> [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]
>> 
>> Eshell V5.10.2  (abort with ^G)
>> 1> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}, true).
>> {{2013,9,28},{0,0,35}}
>> 2> q().
>> ok
>> escorpiao:programming_in_c seawolf$ 
>> 
>> How do I know for sure that I'm using the same Erlang binary as Riak is? I 
>> installed it via Homebrew and don't know off the top of my head how to 
>> verify which Erlang it's picking up (or if I even have more than one).
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> jeffrey k eliasen
>> 
>> Find and follow me on:
>> Blog: http://jeff.jke.net
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffreyeliasen
>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/jeffrey.eliasen
>> 
>> On Oct 2, 2013, at 23:44 , Luke Bakken <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>> 
>>> Can you provide the output of the date command on the machine where Riak is 
>>> running as well as the one from which you're running curl? I'm assuming 
>>> it's the same workstation, but I'd like to be sure.
>>> 
>>> Based on the stack traces you provide, the localtime_to_universaltime 
>>> function is failing when called with [{{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}},true] as the 
>>> arguments, which really doesn't make sense.
>>> 
>>> Could you run that method via the erl command in the Erlang build used by 
>>> your Riak installation? I have built Riak from source so erl is in the 
>>> erts-5.9.1/bin directory, for instance:
>>> 
>>> lbakken ~/Projects/basho/riak_ee-1.4/dev/dev1/erts-5.9.1/bin 
>>> ((riak_ee-1.4.2))
>>> $ ./erl
>>> Erlang R15B01 (erts-5.9.1) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:0] 
>>> [kernel-poll:false]
>>> 
>>> Eshell V5.9.1  (abort with ^G)
>>> 1> erlang:localtime_to_universaltime({{2013,9,28},{8,0,35}}, true).
>>> {{2013,9,28},{15,0,35}}
>>> 2> q().
>>> ok
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Luke Bakken
>>> CSE
>>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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