Time problem

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

I have the same issue as reported by someone else, that if I enter 9am I get 8.59 am. This drives me nuts. It's worse if you put in an "all day" event because then instead of starting at 12:00am it starts at 11:59pm, which means it start the previous day. Any help to solve this would be greatly appreciated. I've futzed with time zones to try and compensate but not successfully.

daltonlp · Site Admin Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1499

I'm still unable to duplicate the problem locally Sad

Do you have an URL I can take a look at?

Thanks,
- Lloyd

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

Sorry, should have put this in my original post
http://www.sgecal.com
may not have propogated , if so use
http://64.38.25.98/~sst/

give me a moment, need to remove a password

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

How did you go on this one ? Any luck ?

daltonlp · Site Admin Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1499

None at all - I've been racking my brains. I'm starting to wonder if it's some goofy "leap-second" thing.

- Lloyd

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

Just FYI, the server info is

Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.34 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.7
PHP version 4.4.2
MySQL version 4.1.13-standard

I'm accessing via an XP laptop, using firefox (but same problem when I tried IE)

daltonlp · Site Admin Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1499

If you have command-line access to the server, can you try these two commands?

perl -e "use Time::Local;print timegm(0,0,9,30,3,2006)"

This should print "1146387600" (the unix timestamp for 9:00 am, April 3, 2006). Then try:

perl -e "@a=gmtime 1146387600;print $a[0];"

This should print "0" (the "minutes" part of the time for that same timestamp).

- Lloyd

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

unfortunately I don't have command line access. I tried uploading a batch file with these commands, the file seemed to execute OK once i did a chmod, but didn't recognise the command perl. Probably no surprise to you that it didn't but as the ftp client I have is my only access, I thought it was worth a shot.

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

just checked further - shell access is not avalable on my host unless you have a dedicated server [package (which I don't)

daltonlp · Site Admin Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1499

Wow, that is unfortunate Sad

If you ever consider switching, dreamhost.com has been a wonderful host for Plans for many years.

- Lloyd

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

Just reinstalled plans from start. Problem remains. Interesting thing is that all the pre-installed holidays are suffering the 1 day too early problem (as they are all-day events). Thanks for the tip on dreamhost, may well do this sometime in the future. In the meantime I want to get plans working on my host. Plans really is good , which is why I am persisting !

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

perl -e "use Time::Local;print timegm(0,0,9,30,3,2006)"
reported "1146387600" as you predicted

daltonlp · Site Admin Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 1499

The fact that this affects existing elements indicates an issue with the server's time calculations.

How about the second perl command? What does that print?

- Lloyd

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

Sorry, forgot to include. Apprently the result to
perl -e "@a=gmtime 1146387600;print $a[0];"
was
ARRAY(0x8410180)

(I had to ask the tech support guys to run these since I don't have command lime access)

rdurand · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

Well I gave up, uploaded plans to another host, works fine now. Cost me extra money but the only quick solution I could think of. If you do come up with a "fix" that compensates for whatever the heck the server was doing that might be good for others who experience the same problem. Thanks for your rapid response on my questions.