Re: Rotatelogs and british summertime.

[Steve Foster <stephenfoster1971@xxxxxxxxx>]

You would assume so, but the guidance in the documentation says the following:

 

"Causes the use of local time rather than GMT as the base for the interval or for strftime(3) formatting with size-based rotation. Note that using -l in an environment which changes the GMT offset (such as for BST or DST) can lead to unpredictable results!"

 

We used this a while ago and removed it when we realised it didn't work correctly. Currently setting a TZ variable in startup scripts (/etc/init.d type scripts) to GMT0BST,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0/1 results in the right timings being applied to the access logs in BST , the log rotation is still offset though. I am not sure whether the TZ variable is being set on the execution of the rotatelogs script that is spawned from the httpd.

 

Steve

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My concern is though that when we switch back to GMT in October that i will
> then have to remove the "+60" from the configuration.

Isn't that what -l does for you?

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