Date displays as GMT

Bruce_Riggins · February 14, 2002, 1:14am

(version 2.0.8)
The dates in the Web interface are showing as GMT instead of local time. I
have set up config.pm for local time ($Timezone = ‘US/Pacific’ but that
doesn’t seem to help.

Any ideas? How do I fix this?

Bruce Riggins
bruce@go-mol.com

Greg_White1 · February 14, 2002, 3:19am

(version 2.0.8)
The dates in the Web interface are showing as GMT instead of local time. I
have set up config.pm for local time ($Timezone = ‘US/Pacific’ but that
doesn’t seem to help.

Any ideas? How do I fix this?

Just a wild guess, but do you have a global TZ environment variable set?
Apache (IIRC) needs to inherit a $TZ for dates in the web interface to
work right.

Try stopping Apache, and stuffing TZ=PST (or whatever works for you) in
the script that starts it. You’ll probably need to export it as well.

Greg White

Vivek_Khera · February 14, 2002, 3:20pm

“BR” == Bruce Riggins bruce@go-mol.com writes:

BR> (version 2.0.8)
BR> The dates in the Web interface are showing as GMT instead of local time. I
BR> have set up config.pm for local time ($Timezone = ‘US/Pacific’ but that
BR> doesn’t seem to help.

Does your system understand “US/Pacific” as a valid time zone?
Probably not.

Check your system’s man pages for how to specify your time zone
properly, then use that string there.

Rob_Mitzel · February 14, 2002, 10:50pm

I had this EXACT same problem for ages with RT. I’m running FreeBSD 4.4 for
my RT production box, and my timezone for pacific time is:

$Timezone = ‘PST8PDT’;

I hope that helps.

-Rob.

Bruce_Riggins · February 14, 2002, 11:20pm

I used tzselect to find the right option. For me, it was putting the
following in the profile:

TZ=America/Los_Angeles; export TZ

Then I had to completely stop, then start, apache.

Thanks.

BruceFrom: Rob Mitzel [mailto:rmitzel@peer1.net]
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