Bug 483393 - RFE: Buildsystems should use UTC as their timezone
Summary: RFE: Buildsystems should use UTC as their timezone
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: koji
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Cantrell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-31 15:33 UTC by Imtiaz Rahi
Modified: 2013-01-10 05:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:45:34 UTC
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Description Imtiaz Rahi 2009-01-31 15:33:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Building the kernel EST timezone causes kernel version string to be fixed on EST time and making reading of timestamp more difficult to non-US users

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run `uname -a` command
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
[root@<server> ~]# uname -a
Linux <server> 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 14:59:37 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Expected results:
UTC time is expected in output instead of EST

Additional info:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480532

Comment 1 Imtiaz Rahi 2009-01-31 15:38:11 UTC
I also think that fixing the kernel to provide time stamp using UTC would also fix this issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466800

Comment 2 Dennis Gilmore 2009-02-01 17:40:25 UTC
Fedora entire infrastructure runs on UTC. 
date
Sun Feb  1 17:32:02 UTC 2009  thats from one of the builders.  before we switched to UTC over 18 months ago builders all ran MST.   they have never been run EST. the issue you are reporting is not an issue with the buildsystem at all.

Comment 3 Imtiaz Rahi 2009-02-03 12:40:21 UTC
Please see the comments made by Ondrej Vasik (ovasik AT redhat DOT com)  2009-01-20 04:34:26 EDT
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480532#c4

I have opened this report based on his suggestion.

Comment 4 Jesse Keating 2009-02-06 01:44:57 UTC
This I do believe is a missing function of mock, not duplicating the host tzdata into the client.

Comment 5 Jesse Keating 2009-02-06 01:59:36 UTC
Patch sent upstream for mock.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 07:45:34 UTC
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