reassign 380667 libc6
thanks

CST is returned by tzname[0] so basically it is a broken value set for
some timezones. A nice libc bug, not a proftpd one. There's surely
some mergeable bug around for other programs ... 

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:21:25AM -0500, Jeff McClure wrote:
> Quoting Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >uhm
> >
> >TZ=US/Central date
> >
> >gives me
> >
> >Wed Aug  2 09:43:49 CDT 2006
> >
> >which is different from
> >
> >TZ=CST date
> >
> >Wed Aug  2 14:44:54 CST 2006
> >
> >which indeed is the same as GMT. Would you please re-tzconfig with your TZ?
> 
> I think we're getting close to the problem. Why is ProFTPD setting TZ 
> to "CST" instead of "US/Central"? I re-ran tzconfig and chose 
> US/Central. I confirmed (again) that both /etc/timezone and 
> /etc/localtime both point to the correct timezone (US/Central), but 
> when I log into ProFTPD with DefaultRoot set, I still get this:
> 
> dbtserv.test.****.com (dbtserv.test.****.com[::ffff:10.100.51.2]) - set 
> TZ environment variable to 'CST'
> 
> ProFTPD should be setting TZ equal to "US/Central" (or even "CST6CDT"), 
> not "CST". "CST" isn't even a valid time zone name. Since the time zone 
> name isn't valid, the system is dropping back to UTC.
> 
> Just for fun, I sym-linked /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST to 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central. That makes ProFTPD report the correct 
> time stamps, but that's a hack. ProFTPD should be setting TZ to the 
> correct timezone name.
> 

PS: a possible work-aroud is avoiding to live in USA :)

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine


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