Linux date as filepro sees it

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> 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.
> 
> What's the BIOS clock say?  That's the real
> indicator given the lines along
> which I'm thinking.
> 

Thanks.  I don't know what time zone the box is
configured for.  Do you take me for a sys admin or
something :-)

I tried echo $TZ and it did not come back with any
value.  I'll bet you are right - that the BIOS time is
off.  Is there a way to heck that without re-booting?

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.


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