Paul Martin wrote: > severity 416177 minor > tags 416177 confirmed wontfix > thanks > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:57:18PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > > My time switched to BST (UK's DST) last night. I have it setup > > "properly" ie the system clock is UTC, not the MS Windows way. When I > > ran logrotate on a file today it complained that it had been rotated in > > the future. I'm not sure exactly why that happened, but I guess it's > > something to do with logrotate using localtime where it would be better > > to use gmtime. > > Yes, it does use localtime. > > However, this is unlikely to be a problem for most people, as they don't > usually rotate files more than once a day. Bear in mind that cron uses > localtime, too. Fixing this is most likely to cause problems for logrotate's > most usual purpose, which is rotating logs as part of a daily cron job. > > What would happen in that case is that around summer time changes you would > get a day when logs didn't get rotated, which could be at the least > inconvenient for some users. > > Feel free to correct my logic if I'm spouting rubbish.
On my computers, monthly rotated logfiles (namely /var/log/wtmp) got rotated an additional time on March 25th. This might be indeed problematic, as one doesnt expect this behavior, and old log files get deleted too early. - Dietrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
