[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.0.4 not adjusting for daylight savings time

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 09:19 -0500, Chris Fabri wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:44 -0500, Chris Fabri wrote:
> >> I have a red hat 3 system running 3.0.4  It did not successfully
> >> adjust for daylight savings time.    Everything else on the system is
> >> fine - syslog is showing the correct time stamps, the system reports
> >> the correct time.   Restart of syslog-ng, and shutting down both
> >> syslog and syslog-ng did not help.  I didn't see anything in the lists
> >> addressing this, here are details of my syslog-ng:
> >>
> >> [fabric at netlog dhcp]$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -V
> >> syslog-ng 3.0.4
> >> Revision: ssh+git://bazsi@git.balabit//var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.0#master#1b5d618e301ad94aa20e692ffba16469dece8d10
> >> Compile-Date: Aug 24 2009 16:54:31
> >> Enable-Threads: off
> >> Enable-Debug: off
> >> Enable-GProf: off
> >> Enable-Memtrace: off
> >> Enable-Sun-STREAMS: off
> >> Enable-Sun-Door: off
> >> Enable-IPv6: on
> >> Enable-Spoof-Source: off
> >> Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on
> >> Enable-SSL: off
> >> Enable-SQL: off
> >> Enable-Linux-Caps: on
> >> Enable-Pcre: off
> >>
> >>
> >>  I didn't see anything in the man page for adjusting for time.  I have
> >> keep_timestamp(no) configured in my conf file.   The systems sending
> >> the syslog files time is correctly adjusted for daylight savings.  Is
> >> this a bug in this particular version, or am I just missing the right
> >> flag or something?     chris
> >
> > You state that syslog is showing correct timestamps. Is that syslogd? Or
> > where do you see the problem?
> >
> 
> 
> Problem is only with syslog-ng.   syslogd is working fine.   

Can you give a more concrete example? Like the timezone you are in, the
message that gets misinterpreted.

syslog-ng should cope with timezones well. We had a recent related issue
that it didn't work, but only in the transition window (e.g. for one
hour until the DST becomes non-DST or vica versa)



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Bazsi