Re: tai64nlocal not showing localtime

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:19:42 -0400, Peter Samuel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting Mariano Absatz <[email protected]>:
> 
> > Does anyone know why tai64nlocal doesn't get the tz offset right?
> >
> 
> It works for me under Fedora Core 1
> 
> [peters@zebedee]% date; date -u; echo what time is it | multilog t .;
> tai64nlocal < current; cat current
> Thu Oct 28 21:11:59 EDT 2004
> Fri Oct 29 01:11:59 UTC 2004
> 2004-10-28 21:11:59.598341500 what time is it
> @40000000418198e923a9f77c what time is it
> 
> What's more likely is that the values being stored are not correct. Show us an
> example of the tai64ntimestamp you are trying to convert. My guess is that the
> timezone may not have been set correctly when multilog was started (yes I know
> that tai64n doesn't have timezones but if multilog's concept of UTC was off when
> it started then you'll get bogus timstamps).
> 
> What do you see when you run tia64nlocal on the value above. When I set my TZ to
> yours I see:
> 
> [peters@zebedee]% TZ=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires tai64nlocal < current
> 2004-10-28 22:11:59.598341500 what time is it
> [peters@zebedee]% echo @40000000418198e923a9f77c what time is it |
> TZ=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires tai64nlocal
> 2004-10-28 22:11:59.598341500 what time is it
> 
> What do you see? if you see the same thing then tai64nlocal is working as
> advertised and the timstamps in your data are "wrong".
> 

Nope... timestamps are OK (the first thing I did was to restart
multilog)... I copied your 'current' file and I got 'UTC' results :-(

[admin@fg:WK 0]# tai64nlocal < current; cat current
2004-10-29 01:11:59.598341500 what time is it
@40000000418198e923a9f77c what time is it
[admin@fg:WK 0]# TZ=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires tai64nlocal < current
2004-10-29 01:11:59.598341500 what time is it
[admin@fg:WK 0]# echo @40000000418198e923a9f77c what time is it | 
TZ=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires tai64nlocal
2004-10-29 01:11:59.598341500 what time is it

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