Subj : Commit f9ad15e8 might need more work :)
To   : Digital Man
From : deon
Date : Mon Dec 23 2024 17:11:36

  Re: Commit f9ad15e8 might need more work :)
  By: Digital Man to deon on Sun Dec 22 2024 07:51 pm

Howdy,

 > Weird that you've got 3 different time zones (PST, EST, and AEDT) going on
 > between 2 systems.

Yup, it is very weird - but a scenario that a sysop could be in, if the have to set the SBBS time seperately to the OS time.

So alterant OS is UTC+11:00, and scfg -> system -> local time zone is the same.

My test environment has the OS as PST (utc -8:00) and I had scfg -> system -> local time zone EST (utc -5:00) - but, the "wall clock" is way off...

Anyway, when I set the test environment back to scfg -> system -> local time zone back to PST (OS unchanged), then the displayed time string is OK.

TEST (UTC -8:00)
X-FTN-PID        Synchronet 3.20a-Linux master/4bb08eded Dec 23 2024 GCC 10.2.1
when_written     6764CE34 FE20 Fri Dec 20 12:53:56 2024 UTC-8:00
when_imported    6768E8E2 41E0 Mon Dec 23 15:36:50 2024 PST

ALTERANT (UTC +11:00)
X-FTN-TID        SBBSecho 3.23-Linux master/4bb08eded Dec 23 2024 GCC 10.2.1
when_written     0328CD78 FE20 Fri Dec 20 12:53:56 2024 UTC-8:00
when_imported    6768E8F8 9258 Mon Dec 23 15:37:12 2024 AEDT

 > I'm not sure how you posted that message, but the hex value there (for
 > when_written.time) is a time_t not the bit-field-endoded date that's used in
 > commit 4bb08eded. So something's amiss.

I wasnt worried about the hex value for when_written_time being off (since I dont trust it to be utc anymore), but rather the text of the date, it was off by more than 3hrs (the difference between utc/pst). Interestingly it looks like it is out by 19hrs which is the OS timezone difference between the two systems.

(This timezone stuff is messy - but I get I'm probably a unique case, if I'm the only one that ends up bringing it up. I'm sure most folks will end of up with OS timezone = Sync timezone)

I posted that message with save_msg(), but I used
hdr.date = strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z",this.__properties__.date)

(and __properties__.date is the File().date of a file where the contents are in the message body (1734659870)).

> stat -c '%X' text/extra/100219b
1734659870


....лоеп

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