Bug#343237: marked as forwarded (Incorrect timestamp generated after daylight savings time ends)

Thu Dec 15 22:03:46 UTC 2005

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has caused the Debian Bug report #343237,
regarding Incorrect timestamp generated after daylight savings time ends
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) David Schweikert <dws at ee.ethz.ch>.

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Subject: Parse::Syslog: Bug#343237: Incorrect timestamp generated after
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From: Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>
To: David Schweikert <dws at ee.ethz.ch>
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Hi David,

this bugreport came in via the Debian bug tracking system, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libparse-syslog-perl

There are actually two bugs,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343237 and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343243 and both refer
to "difficult" syslog lines. The first one has a short discussion (see
the above link). I thought this is best fixed by you as the upstream
author, so CPAN- and other users can benefit too.

Thanks,
Joachim Breitner
on behalf of the Debian Perl Team.

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Von: Anthony DeRobertis <anthony at derobert.net>
Antwort an: Anthony DeRobertis <anthony at derobert.net>,
343237 at bugs.debian.org
An: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Betreff: Bug#343237: Incorrect timestamp generated after daylight
savings time ends
Datum: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:02:12 -0500

Package: libparse-syslog-perl
Version: 1.03-1
Severity: normal

Our syslog near the end of October this year looks like this:

Oct 30 01:59:53 ivr3 bayonne: dx(8): play
Oct 30 01:59:58 ivr3 bayonne: dx(8): step ffff sleep(%timeout)
Oct 30 01:59:58 ivr3 bayonne: dx(8): sleep
Oct 30 01:00:00 ivr3 CROND[6946]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) 
Oct 30 01:00:00 ivr3 CROND[6947]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/runtsync) 
Oct 30 01:00:04 ivr3 bayonne: dx(8): step ffff set(%warning,%noinput)

Parse::Syslog doesn't correctly handle the second 1AM. Instead, it warps
the time backwards! That is, if you paste the above into the following:

perl -MParse::Syslog -e 'my $p = new Parse::Syslog("/dev/stdin", arrayref => 1); while ($arr = $p->next) { print "$arr->[0]\n" }'

You get:

1130651993
1130651998
1130651998
1130648400
1130648400
1130648404

When it finally hits this line:

Oct 30 02:00:00 ivr3 CROND[7083]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1) 

it manages to spit out a correct time stamp again, 1130655600.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libparse-syslog-perl depends on:
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

libparse-syslog-perl recommends no packages.

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