[Asterisk-Users] Date time problems

[Kevin Walsh]

Clif Jones [ctjones at earthlink.net] wrote:
> Has anyone experienced any date/time problems on Asterisk?  I have
> noticed it on earlier builds and I believe on this build:
> CVS-02/16/04-23:57:06 Specifically, I have seen the following problems:
> 1. Change system time using the "date" command while Asterisk is running.
>     Asterisk does not synchronize with new system time.
> 2. Daylight savings time goes on/off at the designated date/time.
>     Asterisk does not synchronize and is off by an hour.
> In both cases, restarting Asterisk is the workaround that I found.  If
> this is a problem, I figured that a lot of people would have seen this
> and discussed it on the list. (Maybe I'm searching for the wrong set of
> terms.) I searched the bug tracker for "time" and came up empty. 
> 
> I have observed this problem on a Red Hat 9 system.  I'm going to test
> further on some different OS's but I would like to hear from anyone else
> that might know why this is happening.  Thanks! 
> 
Modify your server configuration so that it uses the UTC timezone.

All my servers use UTC.  Workstations use an appropriate local timezone.
This helps keep logs "clean" when switching back and forth between
standard and daylight saving time and helps to avoid other time-related
issues.

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