[Rt-devel] RT 3.6.4rc2

[Jesse Vincent]

Can you give me (from the shell):

TZ=US/Eastern date
TZ=America/New_York date
perl -e'$ENV{TZ} = "US/Eastern";  print localtime()."\n";'
perl -e' print localtime()."\n"; $ENV{TZ} = "US/Eastern";  print  
localtime()."\n";'



On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Norton, Ian wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>> 	$RT::Timezone should now actually work.
>>
>> I'd like to hear a couple success reports and confirmation
>> that we've fixed the regression in rc1 before rolling the
>> final next week.
>
> The timezone fix doesn't appear to be working for a test installation.
>
> The system timezone is set to GMT, with the RT Timezone set to
> "US/Eastern".  Recording comments in a ticket shows them logged at the
> GMT time rather than the local timezone.  By this we know that the
> database is correctly logging them at GMT but that the UI is not
> translating them for display.
>
> I *think* that the following sample code should illustrate the  
> problem:
>
> --SNIP--
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use lib "/usr/local/rt3.6.4rc2/lib";
> use RT;
>
> # Load config and init
> RT::LoadConfig();
> RT::Init();
>
> require "RT/Date.pm";
>
> # Create a date object and set it to now
> my $date = RT::Date->new(RT::SystemUser);
> $date->SetToNow();
>
> # timezone as defined by RT
> print("LocalTimezone - " . $date->LocalTimezone() . "\n");
>
> # timezone environment variable
> print("TZ Env var    - " . $ENV{TZ} . "\n");
>
> # time AsString (Returns the object's time as a string with the  
> current
> timezone)
> print("AsString      - " . $date->AsString() . "\n");
>
> # localtime
> print("Localtime     - " . localtime() . "\n");
>
> --SNIP--
>
> The results are this:
>
> LocalTimezone - US/Eastern
> TZ Env var    - US/Eastern
> AsString      - Thu Jun 14 16:14:15 2007
> Localtime     - Thu Jun 14 16:14:15 2007
>
> Whilst I expect localtime to return the value it does, AsString  
> returns
> the same value.
>
> Assuming this is a valid test which I accept it may not be, are there
> any suggestions on how to fix this please?
>
> We're using ubuntu 6.06 with perl 5.8.7 and My SQL 5.0.22.
>
> Thanks, Ian.
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