Redmine

Good day, community

Reproduce
I have:

• redmine 1.2.1 stable installed
• svn 1.6 installed on same server
• utc timezone for redmine set (config.active_record.default_timezone = :utc)
• one project with associated svn repository

What I do:

1. I commit my revision 5755 in issue 1379 at 8.3.2012 00.38 UTC (local time - 8.3.2012 11.38 UTC+11)

What I see:

1. Right after that, in issue 1379 view, I see revision time: 8.3.2012 21.38 (view user profile time - UTC+10)
2. Even if I logged as another user (view user profile - UTC) I see revision time: 8.3.2012 11.38am

What I suppose to see:

1. Revision time must be 8.3.2012 11.38 in my local time or 8.3.2012 00.38 in UTC

Why it happens?
I think it happend when using Time instead Time.zone to write values to ActiveRecord.datetime fields.
I've check:

1. svnlook info -r 5757 /var/svn gives me right time - 2012-03-08 11:38:01 +1100
2. mysql gives me real database info: changesets.committed_on = "2012-03-08 11:38:01" mean it's written wrong (server uses utc time to write, no timezone correction made)

After some investigation I found that time readed from svn readed as Time object, not Time.zone, even in 1.3.1, see: svn adapter, line 190

In this case, Time.zone.parse should be used instead of Time.parse, but another scm adapters also used Time.parse, and there is more correct way to fix this error: in Changeset#committed_on=

def committed_on(date)
  Time.zone = "UTC" 
  date = date.in_time_zone if date.respond_to?(:in_time_zone)
  self.commit_date = date
  super
end

It solve problem in my turn, but one problem that Time.zone UTC hardcoded used, anyone suppose better solution?

I've found, that another issues related to this:

• #5657, seems to very like my one
• #6145, is subset of this

Information:

Redmine 1.2.1.stable.6316 (MYSQL)
Ruby version              1.8.7 (i486-linux)
RubyGems version          1.3.6
Rack version              1.1
Rails version             2.3.11
Active Record version     2.3.11
Active Resource version   2.3.11
Action Mailer version     2.3.11
Active Support version    2.3.11
Application root          /var/www-apps/redmine
Environment               production
Database adapter          mysql
Database schema version   20110511000000