Submitted by jasongayson on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 21:27
The "read mail" default user preferences timezone "system default" is broken and must explicitly be configured. If left on "system default" it does not use /etc/localtime. I had to manually override it to get it to European time.
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Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 22:34 Comment #1
Weird, this works fine for me. Was the TZ environment variable perhaps set in the shell when Usermin was started?
Submitted by jasongayson on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 23:18 Comment #2
Interesting... so you're using the TZ variable. That doesn't actually exist on many systems.
Needs a /etc/localtime file fallback. ;) That's the modern equivalent of /etc/TZ.
Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 23:22 Comment #3
Usermin never actually reads /etc/localtime or the TZ variable - it just uses standard Perl functions like localtime and strftime to convert time_t integers to human-readable format.
If that is failing, it could be because /etc/localtime (or the file it points to) is unreadable, or TZ is set.
Submitted by jasongayson on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 00:14 Comment #4
Weird. All other date functions on the system work perfectly.
Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 15:29 Comment #5
One possible test would be to SSH into the system as one of the users who is having problems, run the
datecommand, and see if it outputs the correct timezone.