Cheshire Cat Computing

Hi Steve,

hm, I do not understand the handling of timezones. I am currently testing with the "Timezone[foobar]: Country" code and I think it is swapped between + and -, because countries that sit "on the right" of mine should have an hour more than mine and not less.

Another point:
In the routers2.conf you say:
"In hours relative to GMT/UCT.
eg, Parts of US
timezone = 5
eg, Denmark
timezone = -1"

But this exactly wrong since denmark is +1 and parts of the US are -5. (And I think it must be "UTC" and not "UCT" )

Or do I misunderstand something?

Gerch

The Timezone[] argument is handled according to your local OS timezone library; this means that what you can put in there depends on what is recognised by your system.

The timezone argument in the routers2.conf is a last-ditch effort to deal with a timezone when you do not know how to specify it in the Timezone[] directive of the MRTG cfg file. In this case, it is simply an hour offset to use for the time conversion. I'll check, but it is likely for local -> UCT conversion, so would be backwards. I can't change this now and preserve backwards compatibility...

As for UTC and UCT, either can be used, depending on if you're doing the abbreviation of the French or English name...

Steve

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