[rrd-users] Re: xport timezones

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:20:43AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:

>   I have some question about rrd and xport tool
> 
>   It output lines like this:
> 
> <row><t>1020611700</t><v>3.4000000000e+00</v><v>5.4400000000e+01</v></row>
> 
>   I want to know if the time row (1020611700 in this example) is related
> to unix timestamp (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC)? Is it always UTC?

This is the number of seconds since the unix epoch, the time
you mentioned.

>   Another question:
>   Inside the rrdfile, are the times stored related to UTC?
>   If I get a filename.rrd in a machine with localtime -0400 and copy
> it to another machine with localtime -0300, will the output of
> "rrdtool xport" be the same?

Of course it will be.  The beauty of UTC is that the location
doesn't matter.  UTC time is the same all over the world.

Alex

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