Server Time is incorrect

[dwhite]

I have some scripts running on unix6 that use the server time. The local time zone for these are GMT -7 , but I have to set them at GMT -5 to show the correct time. Thats really no problem, easy enough to compensate. But today, I noticed on one script that displays the time that the time is exactly 12 hours off, show AM when its actually PM, and vice versa. I checked it to make sure my settring wasn't off. It's not, so I believe it to be the server.

Please correct this flipped time. Thanks!

dwhite, EST is GMT -5, not sure what you mean with GMT -7, however right now we are not on EST, but EDT(Eastern Daylight Time) which throws it off the standard GMT-5 calculation.

Time on unix6 is synchronised with the NIST's stratum 2 server in Boulder, CO via NTP every three hours and its time offset doesn't exceed a fraction of a second at any given time. Local time on it is set to US/Eastern. As it says right now:

unix6:~> date
Wed Jun 25 21:13:09 EDT 2003

One day the world will learn to use 24-hour time.

Alex uses GMT 24 hour clock all the time, soetimes I have to figure out what time he is talking about, its not the 24 hour clock that throws me.

[Brangwyn]

so alex has his BIOS set to GMT ?

[Silverbug]

Originally posted by alexc
One day the world will learn to use 24-hour time.

was almost expecting an evil laugh after this comment

[dwhite]

OK found the problem. The images for the display are GIF files, and the AM / PM ones got flipped. Not a script error, something whomever loaded up the images did. Sorry for the mistaken assumption.

As for the time being on daylight savings, the customer's physical locale is in Arizona, which does not observe it. And since GMT doesn't either, the time difference never changes between them as it does in the rest of the states. Can be a pain in the arse sometimes, but there you have it.