[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#498124: Bug#498124: request-tracker3.6: dynamical timezone

[Niko Tyni]

tag 498124 confirmed patch
thanks

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:09:07PM +0200, Jan Korbel wrote:
> Package: request-tracker3.6
> Version: 3.6.7-2

> I have almost clean installation of request tracker 3.6 inside lenny. My  
> configuration is mod_fastcgi and Apache2. If i don't set timezone  
> locally (90-local), timezone is broken and i have UTC time in web 
> interface.

Thanks for reporting this!

I could have sworn I tested this better, but it's indeed broken.
Apparently the output of 'date +%Z' isn't applicable for a TZ
environment value after all.

I think looking at /etc/timezone and falling back to UTC is the best
thing to do.

> from 40-timezone. And run update-rt-siteconfig, of course. I tried  
> change command to `/bin/cat /etc/timezone` but it's same.

That's because there's a newline at the end. Something like this works
for me:

my $zone = "UTC";
$zone=`/bin/cat /etc/timezone`
    if -f "/etc/timezone";
chomp $zone;
Set($Timezone, $zone);

I'll try to get this into lenny.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org