Re: [Exim] EST vs US/Eastern Timezone setting

--On Thursday, July 29, 2004 15:49:58 -0400 "Mark T. Valites" <valites@???> wrote:

> Since I cut over to Exim this past Satuday, I've been watching my Exim
> logs quite a bit. Somehow or another, I managed to miss that the timestamp
> on all the log entries was off by an hour until just today.
>
> I'm running Exim-4.34/Exiscan-4.34-22 on Solaris 9 (4/04 release), with
> all patches up to date as of two weeks ago.
>
> In my Local/Makefile, I specified:
>
> TIMEZONE_DEFAULT=EST
>
> Section 19.5 (Timestamps) of the Exim book on page 439 tells me setting
> 'timezone = EST' will give me Eastern Standard Time, so I used that for
> the Makefile default setting. I now realize I could have left it out and
> had the build pick up my TZ environment variable, but at the time I
> figured I'd put it in explicitely anyways.
>
> In the rev of solaris I'm using, TZ is set to US/Eastern, not EST, and
> setting 'timezone = US/Eastern' in my config file gives me correct
> timestamps.
>
> I'm not overly familiar with the intricacies of Unix timestamps, or even
> really sure this is an error - is this the fault of my OS or a small bug?

Sounds like explicitly setting it to EST puts it on Eastern Standard
Time; but your clocks are set to Eastern Daylight Time... If you do
nothing, they should re-sync when Daylight Savings Time ends.

I'd probably rebuild without the TIMEZONE_DEFAULT setting...



-Pat