British Summertime
We've got a strange issue occurring since yesterday morning.
We monitor a file to make sure it has been updated in the last 32 minutes but it's currently flagging red claiming the file was last modified 4294964222 seconds ago (just over 136 years).
I can only assume that this has been caused by the clock change from GMT to BST and I suspect that as the client is Windows and the server is Linux that the server is using UTC for the calculation.
Has anyone seen this behaviour and more importantly, does anyone know how to fix it?
I've looked through man pages for analysis.cfg, bbwin.cfg and xymonserver.cfg but can't see anything that might help.
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As an update to this I've just had a look at the client data and it's posting a time of mtime:1332755134 (2012/03/26-09:45:34)
Current epoch time on the server is showing as 1332751779 which gives a result of -3355. I'm assuming it's this negative number that's causing the issue.
It looks to me as though the Windows server is calculating epoch time incorrectly as if I convert that time to normal it comes out at 10:45, not 9:45
It's a Windows 2000 server running BBWin 0.12
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Neil Simmonds Sent: 26 March 2012 09:35 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] British Summertime
We've got a strange issue occurring since yesterday morning.
We monitor a file to make sure it has been updated in the last 32 minutes but it's currently flagging red claiming the file was last modified 4294964222 seconds ago (just over 136 years).
I can only assume that this has been caused by the clock change from GMT to BST and I suspect that as the client is Windows and the server is Linux that the server is using UTC for the calculation.
Has anyone seen this behaviour and more importantly, does anyone know how to fix it?
I've looked through man pages for analysis.cfg, bbwin.cfg and xymonserver.cfg but can't see anything that might help.
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