[rrd-users] Timestamp problem

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mats Gustafsson" <gentoo at mats-gustafsson.se>
To: <rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch>; "Mats Gustafsson" 
<gentoo at mats-gustafsson.se>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:05 PM
Subject: [rrd-users] Timestamp problem


>I have been running rrdtool for nearly two years now with no problems,
> but now I all of a sudden have started to experience some strange things.
> One thing that I just realized is that the timestamp does not behave as
> I expected. If I for example at 2009/02923 01:50 pm updates my database
> like this:
> $ rrdtool update /home/mats/mirror/weather_db/measure3.rrd
> N:0:153:1:U:U:U:U:U
> And then look at the timestamp of the last update:
> $ rrdtool last /home/mats/mirror/weather_db/measure3.rrd
> 1235393110
> The timestamp indicates that the last update was done at 2009/02/23
> 04:45:10 am PST.

And that's most likely the case.

Why are you so sure that it is 01:50pm ?

Check your computer's time. It doesn't matter what the clock on the wall 
shows,  "date +%s" or similar is what counts.

This example from my site: http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/timezone.php

perl -e 'print gmtime(time)."\n".localtime(time)."\n"'

it should show UTC time and local time. You are on european time, so there 
should be one hour difference in it, no more no less.

I ran it at 16:12:18 my time (also european time):

$ perl -e 'print gmtime(time)."\n".localtime(time)."\n"'
Mon Feb 23 15:12:18 2009
Mon Feb 23 16:12:18 2009

HTH
Alex