[asterisk-users] DST and VM timestamp

[Damon Estep]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:54 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] DST and VM timestamp
> 
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:44:08AM -0600, Damon Estep wrote:
> > Who is tired of dealing with DST changes?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have asterisk running on FC4, FC4 has been patched and shows the
> > correct MDT timezone and time.
> >
> >
> >
> > Email notifications of voicemail show the message time an hour early
> > (standard time, not daylight). This si the time in the message body,
not
> > the email delivery time, so it is coming form asterisk wrong.
> >
> 
> Email in the headers has a timezone information in it. If you "fixed"
> the system time by etting the clock, rather than fixing the timezone
> definitions, you may get errors.
> 
> OTOH, the recipient of the email may have done that error.
> 
> >
> >
> > I did a reload after correcting the time/timezone, but not a
restart.
> >
> 
> No reload or restart should be needed.
> 

The tzdata was update on the FC4 box, the OS shows the correct time and
time zone (MDT), the app is still running with the old tzdata.

Putting a tz= in the voicemail config for each use as well as pointing
that same entry to the /America/Denver zone info file corrects the
issue, but I am assuming a reboot will also. The system is too busy to
reboot in the middle of the day, so will confirm after an early morning
restart.

It seems (as stated by a previous responder) that asterisk (and many
other apps) reads time zone info at startup, so a restart is required.