Subject: Re: cvs chroot vs. timezone
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/10/2004 07:56:33
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> I have a cvs server running in a chroot, and it appears that I just
> can't get it to use the right timezone.  Any file committed gets a
> timestamp in UTC.  I've set /chroot/etc/localtime correctly, and if I
> chroot into the chroot, it does give me the correct date.

The timestamps (and all other times) _always_ are in UTC (assuming you
have set the time correctly).  The timezone only affects the routines
which convert time to human-readable form (and vice-versa).

  -jm