[smokeping-users] smokeping and summer time

[Tobias Oetiker]

Michael,
you can run smokeping with --debug ... but as I said, there is
nothing to be found ... regarding time ....

cheers
tobi

Today Michal BULIK wrote:

> thanks for your help. this means that I should
> search elsewhere. I have found nothing in the
> log files. is it possible to increase the verbosity
> of smokeping ?
>
> otherwise I'll wait for the summer time (end of march) ;-)
>
> thanks again,
> michal
>
> > Hi Michal,
> > smokeping uses GMT time for all its internal work ... localtime is
> > just for presentation ... in other words, smokeping does not
> > care about either your timezone or your daylight saving time
> > settings ...
> >
> > what could be a problem though, is if your computer does not
> > actually know about winter and summer time and you evfectively
> > change GMT to compensate for this problem. then obviously smoekping
> > will run into trouble ...
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> > Today Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Michal;
> > >
> > > I've had SmokePing running during several Daylight Savings Time switches
> > > and have never had a problem -- my graphs keep working without
> > > restarting the daemon.  I'm currently running SmokePing 2.0.8 on OpenBSD
> > > 4.0.
> > >
> > > - Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > Michal BULIK wrote:
> > >
> > > > hi,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible that smokeping gets lost when the time is switching from
> > > > the summer
> > > > to the winter time ? it's the only thing (I can think of) which has
> > > > happened during my holidays
> > > > and my graphs became empty. relaunching the stuff made things work
> > > > again.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the 2.0.9-2~bpo.1 version from Debian sarge backports.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > michal
> > > >
> > > > ______________
>
>

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