Re: Change servers timezone to UTC (was: Bugzilla will be DOWN Sat 9 April 17.00-20.00 UTC)

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:57:09PM +0200, Christian Kirbach wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:41:07 -0400, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> >* It takes some work because all cron jobs have to be adjusted
> >  to run at appropriate low-load times.
> 
> I can understand that.
> Is there any way to have only bugzilla work in UTC and leave the server's
> current time zone as it is?
> Cron jobs would not need to be adjusted in that case and bugzilla would
> work in UTC.

Using MySQL 3.23 this would've been possible by running mysqld as UTC.
But this change is for all databases. I've asked this a while ago, but
it wasn't done. Still would've required updating the existing dates in
Bugzilla.

[..]

My reply to gnome-hackers (this was in the beginning of the thread):
| Looking at the subject, this is regarding the timezone used on
| bugzilla.gnome.org. With MySQL 4.1 it should be possible to pretty
| easily use UTC on b.g.o. However, I don't want to do this at the same
| time as the other changes happening tomorrow. First some testing, etc.
| 
| Link to the bug:
| http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98021
| 
| I'll update that with some more information (how, why).

-- 
Regards,
Olav