Linux date as filepro sees it

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:55:09PM -0700, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
>Jeff Harrison cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
>> Hi.  I have a customer that has Suse Linux 9.0 and
>> filepro 5.0  When I log in I see that the date/time is
>> Oct 25 21:44 - When I do a date command I get a
>> similar answer.  However, when I go into filepro and
>> examine the @td variable in the debugger I get
>> 10/26/06
>> 
>> Anyone have a clue as to what is going on here?  Any
>> help would be appreciated.
>
>What timezone is the box configured for?  If you adjust that back to UTC,
>does the date actually come out on the 26th?
>
>Could be ignoring TZ or other locale settings, with the time stored in UTC
>in the BIOS (which is more common these days).  All you'd need is to hit
>GMT -0200 to get the results you're seeing.  UTC is more or less GMT, so
>it's 2hrs even further in that direction.

Current versions of Linux don't generally use the TZ variable,
but link in different routines depending on the time zone.

As a rule, it's a very Good Idea(tm) to configure Linux and Unix
systems to use UTC, not local time as this avoid many sneaky
problems relating to time.

Bill
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