[Server-devel] timestamps on backups

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Hamilton Chua <hamilton.chua at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if anybody has noticed this yet but after doing a backup,
> it seems the datestamps on the backup page are wrong.

We might need more detail than that if we're to understand the situation :-)

> Is there something about time zones and time synchronization that we
> need to be aware of with regards to backups.

Yes, the utc time on all machines should make sense. So do

  date --utc

on XS and on the laptops involved to make sure all players are in the
same decade. This has been tested with machines on different TZs so it
should work. As long as utc agrees across machines.




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