[rt-users] Timezone Help Needed
Camron W. Fox
cwfox at fujitsu.com
Thu Nov 28 17:30:32 EST 2002
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Greg Elisara wrote:
>
> > I'm getting weird timestamps in rt2 (running on Linux RH8). I'm in Auckland,
> > New Zealand (GMT +12). I have set the timezone setting in config.pm to
> > 'NZDT', which I believe linux understands (at least "date" returns in NZDT,
> > eg Tue Nov 26 09:43:12 NZDT 2002) but in RT the timestamp seems to be for
> > GMT.
>
> You're referring to things like the Search page displaying dates in GMT
> (eg: Search Criteria ... Created > 2002-07-31 22:00:00 GMT), yes?
>
> RT will always _store_ dates in GMT/UTC format, and you really don't want
> to change the _storage_ of the dates.
>
>
Bruce,
Have you figured out a way to avoid having to convert times
from $LOCALTIME to GMT every time you want to search by time?
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Best Regards,
Camron
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