Nagios Timezone

[Israel Brewster]

On Jan 6, 2007, at 12:31 AM, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Darren Dunham wrote:
>
>>>> So how do I determine what the proper setting for my timezone is? I
>>>> tried setting TZ="America/Anchorage" but this didn't have any  
>>>> effect.
>>>
>>> That is NOT a valid TZ variable. If you take a minute you can use  
>>> your
>>> favorite search engine and actually find the documentation on the TZ
>>> variable.
>>>
>>> Like: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ- 
>>> Variable.html
>>
>> Do you mean that he's leaving the leading ':' off or something else?
>> I've never seen that cause a problem...
>
> Well I have seen plenty of cases where this format is not  
> supported. It
> only works if all the files are present to translate this format.  
> (They do
> not fit in embedded Linux for example.)
> ...
>
> So to be safe one does not rely on this tree and uses the explicit
> definition

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to make it work. Although the  
Timezone files did exist on my system, attempting to use them in the  
TZ variable didn't work, as mentioned before. Using the explicit  
definition, however, once I managed to figure out what to enter for  
it, produced the desired result, with one caviat: I had to put AKST+9  
rather than AKST-9, even though our offset is -9, not +9. Worked  
though, so I suppose in the long run it doesn't really matter :) Now  
I just have to figure out how to set that environment variable before  
Apache is launched at start up, since the rc.conf file that I edited  
to enable Apache on startup doesn't actually include the command line  
used to launch Apache-just the flags used when launching. I'm sure  
one of my coworkers will know that one though. Thanks for the  
assistance!
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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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