Performance advisor timezone trouble help

From: David Gempton <ttcdg_at_cyberspace.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:55:32 +-1200

Hi,

I recently installed Polycenter;
Performance Data Collector
Performance Advisor (PSPA302)
Capacity Planner.
on OSF 3.2 148

I am seeing a problem that may be related to timezones.

The Data Collector is generating the .cpd files with the correct date stamp in the name.

However Performance Advisor is looking for a file with the name of the next day.

At this point I should point out the I am in New Zealand (-12 hours West of GMT ie; when its 13July 13:00 here, its 13July 01:00 GMT) and when I had this problem it was 13:00 local time.

I tried changing the local environment TZ setting and this had a direct affect on the date of the file that performance advisor looked for.

If I have TZ set to NZST dxadvise looked for a file of the next day. In the reports the date of the data collected is todays date and the time is also correct.

If I set TZ to GMT-0 dxadvise picked up the file for todays date, but displayed the times for the data as if they happened 12 hours ago.

One thing I thought very strange was that with TZ set to GMT the time was the same as for NZST.

However a "date -u" command gave the correct GMT time not local NZST time.

Has anyone seen this problem and is there a fix/workaround.

Many thanks

David Gempton
TTC.
Received on Sun Jul 14 1996 - 09:16:59 NZST

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