Defect #611
closed
times off by 3 hours
0%
Description
In my setup the times are off by 3 hours. Relative times are correct -- for example it will say "updated 1 minute ago", but absolute times are 3 hours later than real times. My server is set up with tzsetup for "Los Angeles", and my RedMine account is set to PST, which is the same time zone as Los Angeles. I can get the correct times displayed by choosing "Samoa" for my time zone in RedMine, which is 3 hours west, but this is suboptimal.
My setup linux 2.6, debian/testing and on a VPS. No other programs have similar problems with time. The OS displays the current current time with the "date" command.
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang almost 17 years ago
What happens if you set no timezone on your account ? Do you get correct times ?
Updated by Kioma Aldecoa almost 17 years ago
Very sorry, this turned out to be a problem with my VPS and time syncing with its host. It seems the host that my VPS was the guest of was in EST and was randomly setting my VPS time to match. Since I also had NTP on the VPS, the time would sometimes be right and sometimes be 3 hours off. It was bad luck that it was off by 3 hours when Redmine needed the time in my tests, and it was the correct time when I checked the time with "date".
So there is no Redmine bug here.