[RCD] Different Timezone offsets in my RoundCube log

[till]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Roland Liebl<roland at roland-liebl.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:36:28 +0200, till <klimpong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Roland Liebl<roland at roland-liebl.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> how can it happen that I have different timezone offsets in my logs?
>>> The write_log function in main.inc should default to php time().
>>> But why can this result in different timezone offsets?
>>> Some insight please ...
>>> Currently it is hard to track back issues back to apache access
> logfile.
>>> Regards,
>>> Roland
>>> [09-Jul-2009 07:00:49 +0200]: Successful login for demo0 at mail4us.net
> (id
>>> 1175) from 95.91.44.235
>>> [09-Jul-2009 02:26:39 -0400]: Successful login for demo at mail4us.net (id
>>> 1171) from 91.64.83.204
>>> [10-Jul-2009 07:39:56 +0900]: Successful login for demo at mail4us.net (id
>>> 1215) from 217.128.145.75
>>
>> That's totally weird. The logs are not aggregated from different
>> servers and the servers are not in sync, or something? I could see how
>> the date would look different depending on what "created" the entry
>> (e.g. PEAR vs. native PHP). But that's not the case. Any pointers?
>>
>> Till
>
> It is running on a VPS of HostEurope. It is really weird because
> all the apache logs are in sync. It only occurs within the RoundCube logs.
> I will try modify function write log to use date() with second (optional)
> argument [, int timestamp]. At the moment it looks like if date() function
> was used with a different "timestamp" according to user's timezone offset
> in the function format_date within one request it "remembers" user's
> timezone for creating the log line.
>
> Roland
>
>

Hehe... ! I just added a check to the installer for a (correct)
date.timezone in php.ini. When none is added, it assumes the user's it
seems. I just tested it on a development server in the u.s. (usually
America/Chicago) and when I added "Lalalala/Foo" to the php.ini it
assumed Europe/Berlin instead.

Till
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